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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    BOTANICAL INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE MATERIA MEDIC A OE THE ANCIENT CHINESE, ♦ INTRODUCTION. In connection with a former paper dealing with the economic plants known to the Chinese in the classical period, and forming the second part of the Botanicou sinicuin,1 the author of those notes now attempts to examine and identify the drugs of vegetable origin noticed in the earliest Chinese works on Materia Medica,—the Sheri nuny Pen ts^ao kiny and the Miny i pie hi. The first of these works, the M Shell nuny Pen ts‘ao kiny, or Herbal of the Emperor Shen Nlng, of which a detailed notice has been given in Part l of the Botanicou sinicuin [p. 27 seqq.] has, as the word kiny (classic) in the title indicates, always been and is still considered by Chinese practitioners a book of the highest authority and a model of pharmacological wisdom. Therefore most of the drugs mentioned in this ancient pharmacopoeia are still kept in store and sold for medical use, and are still known by the same names as they appear in that ancient book. 1 See Jour it. China Ur. A suit. Sue., Vol. XXV.