Korean folk medicine Ggaenggaengipul has beenused to dlear heat and treat chronic childfood mutitional impairment, diarrhea, jaundice, haemorrhoid, inflammation, anepithymia, nausea and egestion .The crude drug often used as a supstitute for the more expensive Huang Lian (황연) in Korea and China. With regard to the botainicla origic of Ggaenggaenigipul , it has never been studied pharmacognostically. To clarify botanical origin of Ggaenggaegipul , the morphological and anatomicla characteristics of the leaves, petiole, rhizoma, and radix of Jeffersonia dubia BENTH were studied.