Medicaments of the Kampo medicine are composed from vegetable drugs. This article describes drugs unknown in European medicine and used in Kampo preparations--Radix bupleuri, Tuber pinelliae, Hoelen, Radix scutellariae, Cortex magnoliae, Fructus zizyphi, Herba perillae, Radix paeoniae, Rhizoma atractylodis, Rhizoma alismatis, Radix alismae, Rhizoma cnidii, Radix angelicae, Rhizoma coptidis, Fructus gardeniae, Cortex phellodendri, Polyporus, Radix ginseng.