Through studying on the ancient herbal documents , we found that the fruits of litsea lam had been used as " bichengqie " instead of piper cubeba before the tang dynasty , henceforth , litsea cubeba was included in pharmacopoeia as a substite for imported bichengqie . a survey of the botanical resource shows that 6 species with accurat effects are widely dispersed over sichuan province , including litsea cubeba ( lour . ) pers . ,