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.

    105/638 (page 95)
    The description given of the su cPang Ping by the ancient authors is not characteristic. A rude drawing of the plant is found in the Ch. [VII, 21]. Comp. Henry, Chin, pi., 154. So moku, IV, 30 :—I/IP Pycnostelma chinensis, Bge.—See also Kwa voi, 33. The 3^j §15 kv,i tu yu,, which name in the Pen king is given as a synonym for the sii cPang Ping and also for the cPi tsien [vide 11], is considered by the authors who commented upon the ancient Materia Medica, to be a distinct plant which resembles the former only in its root. See P., XIII, 56. Su Ivung [7th cent.] describes the kui tu yu as a plant with a single always moving stem, at the top of which the leaves are inserted like an umbrella.—Another author says that the flowers come out between the leaves and are of a yellowish white colour. It is figured in the Ch. [VIII, 30] in accordance with the above description. So moku, XVI, 2 :—^ |j[> Macroclinidium verticil- latum, Franchet, a Composita. The leaves are arranged in a whorl at the top of the stem. White flowers. 44.—Q pai wei. P., XIII, 58. T., CLVII. Pen king:—Pai (white) wei, ^ ^ cPun tslao (spring herb). The root is officinal. Taste bitter, saltish. Nature uniform. Non-poisonous. Li Shi-chen refers this plant to Rh. ya, 147. It has been erroneously identified by the commentators of the Rh ya with the many tPao [see 158].