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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    51—Q T pai chi. P., XIYa, 14. T., CLYII. Pen king:—Pai chi, [ [ pai chi hiang, Q ^ pai ctii, zij ^ fang hiang (fragrance). The root is officinal. Taste pungent. Nature warm. Non-poisonous. Pie lu:—Other names : tse fen (marshes’ fra- grance), ^ Hi! fu The pai chi grows in Ho tung [S.W. Shan si, App. 80], in river valleys and marshes. The root is dug up in the 2nd and 8th months. The leaves are likewise used in medicine. T‘ao IIung-king :—It is a common plant in Eastern China. The leaves are used as a perfume. Su Sung [11th cent.]:—It is common in the countiy of Wu [Iviang su, App. 389]. Root more than one foot long, coarse or slender, of a white colour. Leaves opposite as broad as three fingers. Yellowish white flowers. The best is produced in Huang tse [unknown. App. 96]. Tatar., Cat., 4 :—Pai chi. lladix Umbelliferce (Angeliccc). —Gauger, 4 :—Same drug figured and described. Um- bellifera.—P. Smith [120] identifies it erroneously with Iris florentina. Loureiro, FI. cochin., 114: — Dorstenia cldnensis (a dubious plant unknown to botanists), sinice pe chi. Habitat in provinciis borealibus imperii Sinensis. Radix aromatica in usum medicum. It seems that Loureiro described the plant partly from a Chinese drawing. Oust. Med., No. 940 :—Pai chi. Root of Angelica anomala, Pall. Oust. Med., p. 68 (45):—Pai chi exported 1885 from Han kow 1,825 piculs,—p. 142 (78), from Shang hai 550 piculs,—p. 58 (16), from I chang 337 piculs. For further particulars regarding the pai chi, an umbelliferous plant, see Pot. sin., II, 410.