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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    other resembles the small-leaved kung kHung. It is called 1$ 01 1 l tslan tlou (silk-worm’s-head) tang kui. This is the drug from Li yang spoken of by T‘ao Hung-king. It is not much used. Su Sung [11th cent.]:—The tang kui grows in ClTuan Shu [Sz clTuan, App. 26], Shen si [App. 284], also in Kiang ning f'u [Nan king, App. 129], ClTu chou [in An hui, App. 284]. The best drug comes from Shu (Sz ch‘uan). The leaf is divided into three segments. It flowers in the 7th or 8th months. The flowers resemble those of the shi lo (A net hum ?), and are of a pale purple colour. The drug which is thick and fleshy, of a dark yellow colour and not rotten, is the best. Li Shi-chen :—The drug is now much cultivated for sale by the people of Sz clTuan, Shen si, Ts‘in chon [in Kan su, App. 858] and Wen chou [in Sz clTuan, App. 887]. The via icei tang kui from Ts‘in chou is the best. Ch., XXAr, 14 :—Tang kui. Rude drawing representing, it seems, an umbelliferous plant. The aromatic root tang kui brought from Sz clTuan, and much valued by the Chinese, was sent to Paris, in 1728 by the Jesuit Father Parennin. [See my Earl. Eur. Res. FI. Ch., p. 81]. , D’Incarville [Peking Plants] says it is a kind of “ Ache ” (Celery). Tatar., Cat., 19 :—Tang kui. Rad. Levistici chinensis ? —Gauger [18] describes and figures the root. He thinks that it belongs to an umbelliferous plant.—Hanb., Sc. pap., 260 : —Tang kwei, described as a fleshy branchy root . . . . approaching in odour that of Celery or Angelica. TIanbuby identifies it erroneously with Aralia edulis, as does also P. Smith [20], but [p. 138] the latter refers the name tang kui to Levisticum. Cast. Med., p. 70 (63):—Tang kui exported 1885 from Han kow 11,700 piculs,— p. 60 (28), from 1 cluing 6a0