Botanicon Sinicum: notes on Chinese botany from native and Western sources. Part 3, Botanical investigations into the materia medica of the ancient Chinese / [E. Bretschneider].

Emil Bretschneider

Date:: 1895

Credit: Botanicon Sinicum: notes on Chinese botany from native and Western sources. Part 3, Botanical investigations into the materia medica of the ancient Chinese / [E. Bretschneider]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$So mahi, IV, 48, 49 :—*§ Jjjp jp[ Genii an a Buerger!, Miq.—Phon zo [VIII, 5, 6] same Chinese name. Several species of Gentiana. 40. —si sin. P., XIII, 51. 7’., CLXI. Pen king:—Si sin (slender and pungent), /J'* ^ si.ao sin. The root is officinal. Taste pungent. Nature warm. Non- poisonous. In the Shan hai king it is called -JS shao sin. Pie lu:—The si sin grows in the mountain valleys of Hua yin [in Shen si, App. 87]. Root dug up in the 2nd and 8th months and dried in the shade. T‘ao Hung-king :—Now the drugs from Tung yang and Lin hai [both in Che kiang, App. 876, 192] are used, but they are inferior to the si sin from Hua yin. Su Sung [11th cent.]:—The true si. sin from Hua chou [in Shen si, App. 85] is slender (fine rootlets) and of a very pungent taste, whence the name. It is frequently substituted for the tu lieng [v. infra~\. Li Shi-chen :—The ancient Po nm chi [3rd cent.] observes that the si sin is frequently confounded with the tu lieng. The difference between these two plants is that the si sin has tender leaves resembling those of a small mallow. The stem is slender, the root is straight, of a purple colour and very pungent in taste. The tu lieng has leaves resembling a horse’s hoof, a coarser stem, a contorted root of a yellowish white colour and a pungent taste. For identification see the next. 41. —ft tu heng. P., XIII, 54. T., CXLVIII. The Pen king gives this name as a synonym for tu ju [v. infra, 55], but the Pie lu applies it to another plant.$