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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    sluio yo, (the root of which) is poor and fibrous, whilst the shao yo with a white, fat root is called £ l [ kin (gold) shao yo. Ch‘en Ch'eng [11th cent.] says, that the shao yo, mentioned as a wild plant by the ancient authors, is now much cultivated by the people. Li Shi-chen :—In ancient times Lo yang [the ancient capital of China, in Ho nan, App. 201] for the cultivation of its mou tan flowers and Yang chon [in Kiang su, App. 400] for its shao yo. For medical use now the drug obtained from the shao yo cultivated in Yang chon is generally employed. There are more than thirty varieties of the cultivated shao yo, single and double flowered. The root of the single flowered is used in medicine. It is white or red according to the colour of the flowers. The shao yo is Pceonia alhifiora, Pall. For further particulars see Bot. sin., II, 403. Lour., FI. cochin., 419 :—Pceonia officinalis [Loureiro describes under this name P. albiflora], sinice ico yo (sho yo). Varietates flore albo et rubro (radice rubescente). Habitat culta spontaneaque per totum imperium Sinense, maxime in provinces borealibus. Virtus radicis, imprimis rubrre, nervina, cephalica, emmenagoga. Tatar., Cat., 15 :—^ | [ chli (red) shao yo, Rad. Ptconice rabrce.—P. Smith, 1G9. Pceonia albiflora, Pall., is common in the mountains of North China and also much cultivated in gardens under the name of shao yo. It has the same Chinese name in Hu pei [see Henry, Chin.pl., 393] and in Japan. Cast. Med., p. 122 (44) : — Pai (white) shao yo exported 1885 from Chin kiang 7,388 piculs,—p. G8 (4G), from Han kow 2,134 piculs,—p. 58 (17), from I cluing 327 piculs,— p. 24 (43), from Tien tsin 5 piculs,