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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    52.—f§| slicio yo. P., XlVa, 18. T., CXY. Pen king:—Shao yo. The root is officinal. Taste bitter. Nature uniform. Non-poisonous. Pie lu:—Other names: 3|!I li shi, fife l/il yun9-> §§ yen. The shao yo grows on the Chung yo mountain [in Ho nan, App. 33] in river valleys. The root is dug up in the 2nd and 8th months and dried in the sun. Other ancient names : tsiang li, j|l li ts‘ao. T;ao Hung-king :—The best sorts are found on the Pai shan and Tsiang shan mountains [both unknown. App. 238, 351] and on the Mao shan [in Kiang su, App. 218]. The root is white and about a foot long. The plant is also found in other localities, but that is for the greater part the red sort, which is of an inferior quality. Ma Chi [10th cent.]:—There is a white and a red sort (according to the colour of the root). The flowers are also white or red. Su Sung [11th cent.]:—It is a common plant. The best drug comes from Huai nan [An hui, Kiang su, App. 90]. The young sprouts are of a red colour. Leaves on the top of the stem, three branches, five leaves (the author means biternate leaves! resembling the leaves of the mou tan [.Pceonia mou tan. See 53], but they are longer and narrower. The plant is from one to two feet high. Its flowers are white, red or purple. The fruit resembles that of the mou tan, but is smaller. According to the Ku lcin chu [4th cent.] there are two kinds of shao yo, the ]p [ [ tslao (herbaceous) shao yo and the tJc l l mu (tree) shao yo. The latter has large flowers of a deep (red) colour and is commonly called i[j[ mou tan [see 53]. According to other authors the mu shao yo is a name for the purplo