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
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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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    Comp, also Bot. sin., II, 156, 414. Pie lu:—The tu lieng is a mountain plant. The root is dug up on the 3rd day of the 3rd month and dried in the sun. T£ao Hung-king: — In its root and leaves it much resembles the si sin, but it is less potent. It is not much used in medicine. The Taoists employ it for scenting clothes. The Tlang Pen ts‘ao [7th cent.] calls it ^ ma tli liiang (horse’s-hoof fragrance). Su Sung [11th cent.]:—It is a common plant in Mid China. Perennial root. A small branchless plant, two to three inches high. Leaves like a horse’s hoof in shape. Purple flowers. Fruit of the size of a pea, contains small seeds. The si sin and the tu lieng are both species of Asarum. See Bot. sin., II, l.c. Tatar., Cat., 44 :—Si sin. Folia Heterotropce asaroidts (= Asarum Thunbergii, Al. Br.).—P. Smith, 112. The drug si sin received from an apothecary’s shop in Peking consisted of the tender, fibrous roots with some leaves of an Asarum. Gust. Med., p. 2 (14):—Si sin exported 1885 from New chwang 2,044 piculs,—p. 44 (13), from Che foo 20 piculs,—p. 68 (37), ma sin (ma Vi liiang) from Han kow 132 piculs,—p. 302 (407), from Amoy the same exported in a small quantity. 42^ ki hi. P., XIII, 55. T., CXXXIV. The Pie la has only the name (ki ki), no details. Su Kung [7th cent.]:—The ki ki grows in the moun- tains, in shady valleys. The plant has only one stem, at the top of which are four leaves, The flowers are white, issue