It is extracted from the root and rhizome of Veratum nigrum L. It contains many steroid alkaloids, such as Mesenchyphine, pseudomesenchyphine, veratrinamine etc.

Veratrine means total alkaloids in the root and rhizome of Veratrum Nigrum.

Vertrine is used as broad spectrum pesticide Insecticide, The veratrine has a good effect to kill aphid, Cabbage worm,plutella xylostella,Phyllotreta striolata Fabricius,Phaedon,Henosepilachna Vigintioctomaculata.

It is used as an ingredient of botanical insecticide for Organic farm.

It has contact and stomach poisoning effects on pests. Its insecticidal mechanism is that the agent enters the digestive system through the insect's epidermis or ingestion, causing local irritation, triggering reflex excitement of the insect, and then inhibiting the insect's sensory nerve endings, resulting in the death of the insect. Mainly used for the control of cabbage caterpillars, cucumber whitefly, eggplant thrips, red spider mites, yellow mites, cotton bollworms and cotton aphids.