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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    Amain, exot., 862 :—^ bo tan. Ppeonia major stirpe ligneo surrecto, folio ramoso, laciniis insequaliter divisis. Phon co, IX, 13, 14 :—Same Chinese name, Paionia Moutan. 54.—7fv ^ mu hiang. P., XlVa, 24. T., CXVII. Pen king:—Mu hiang (wood perfume). The root is officinal. Taste pungent. Nature warm. Non-poisonous. Pie lu :—Other name §|? ^ mi hiang (honey perfume). The mu hiang grows in the mountain valleys of Yung clTang [in W. Yiin nan, App. 426]. T‘ao TIung-king :—This drug (spoken of in the Pie lu) is the pf /fC Ie? tsling (green) mu ldang, which now how- ever is not brought from Yung chking. The mu hiang now employed in China is all brought by foreign ships. People say that it is produced in Ta Ts‘in [the Roman Empire in Asia and Europe]. It is not used as a medicine, but only as a perfume. Su Kung [7th cent.]:—There are two kinds of mu hiang. The best comes from K‘un lun [see App. 171]. That from Si hu [see App. 299] is of an inferior quality. The leaves of the mu hiang resemble those of the yang t‘i jJRumex. See 193] but are longer and larger. The flowers resemble those of the kii hua (Chrysanthemum). The fruit is yellowish black and likewise officinal. The mu hiang is much used in medicine. T£ao Hung-king is wrong in stating that it is only employed as a perfume. Chen Kuan [7th cent.]:—According to the Nan chou i wu chi [3rd cent.] the tsling mu hiang comes from T‘ien elm (India). It is the root of an herbaceous plant and has the appearance of the kau tslao (Liquorice).