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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    Ibid., p. 22 (10):—Ch(i (red) shao yo exported from Tien tsin 2,075 piculs,—p. 2 (6), from New chwang 211 piculs,—p. 44 (7), from Che foo 2 piculs. 53.—ft mou tan. P., XlVa, 22. T., CCLXXXYI1 to CCXCII. Pen king:—Mou tan (the male red) JfJ situ ku, jf$» ^ hi kin. The bark of the root is officinal. Taste pungent. Nature cold. Non-poisonous. Pie lu:—The mou tan grows in the mountain valleys of Pa [E. Sz clffuan, App. 235] and in Han chung [S. Shell si, App. 54]. Hoot dug up in the 2nd and 8th months, and dried in the shade. T‘ao Hong-king:—Now this plant is also found in the eastern provinces of China. The red sort is good. Su Rung [7th cent.]:—It grows in Han chung and Kien nan [W. Sz ch‘uan, App. 13d]. The plant has the appearance of the yang hao [see Pot. sin., II, 493]. In summer it puts forth white flowers, followed in autumn by roundish green fruit which becomes red in winter and does not fall off. The root resembles that of the shao yo [see 52]. It has white flesh and a red rind. The local name is H PO P° L/uny kin (hundred taels gold). In Ch‘ang an [in Shen si, App. 6] it is known under the name ^ [ [ icu moa tan (mou tan from Wu), which is the true mou tan. Su Sung [11th cent.]:—Now the drug from Ho chou [in Sz ch‘uan, App. 69, 5.] is considered the best. Those from Ho chou and Siian chou [botli in An hui, App. 71, 315] are also of a good quality. The mou tan grows in a wild state in the mountains of Tan chou and Yen chou [both in Shen si, App. 327, 403], in Ts‘ing chou [in Shan tung, App. 363], Yiie chou [in Che kiang, App. 418], in