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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    Ch., VIII, 26 :—Pai ts'ien. The plant represented shows only leaves. Cust. Med., p. 646 (105) :—Pai tslien exported 1885 from Canton 9 piculs. So moku, IV, 82 :—]pj Vincetoxicmn purpurascens, Morr. & Den. 16.—^ gf tang kui. P., XIV«, 1.— T., CXXXII. Pen king:—Tang kui, ^IF ^an kui. The root is officinal. Taste bitter. Xatnre warm. Xon-poisonous. For other ancient names see Bot. sin., II, 5, 49. Pie lu:—The tang kui grows in Lung si [in Kansu, App. 216] in river valleys. The root is dug up in the 2nd and 8th months and dried in the shade. In the Ku kin chu [1th cent.] the plant is called M wen wu. T‘ao HuNG-king : — The tang kui which comes from Lung si [in Kan su, App. 216], Si yang [in Hu pei, App. 302], Hei sliui [in Kan su and Sz ch‘uan, App. 60] is very fleshy, not much branched, and fragrant. It is called [ [ ma wei (horse’s-tail) tang kui. The drug from Si ch‘uan [in Kan su, App. 296] and Dei pu [in Sz ch'uan or Kan su, App. 211] has many branches and is smaller. That from Li yang [in An hui, App. 186] is of a white colour and has but little taste and smell. It is called [ [ tslao (herbaceous) tang kui. It is sometimes substituted for the true tang kui. Su Kung [7th cent.]:—The tang kui is produced in Tang chou [in Sz ch‘uan, App. 332], in Tang chou [in Kan su or Sz ch‘uan, App. 331], this is of a superior quality, in I chou [in Sz eh‘uan, App. 102], in Sung chou [in Sz chTian, App. 818]. There are two kinds. One resembles the large-leaved kung Piung [Angelica. See 17] and is called ma icei tang kui [r. supra]. This is now much used. The 13