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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    Li Shi-chen notices that the above name mi hiang is also applied to the chlen hiang [Aloeivood. See 307] and mu hiang to a kind of Rose [the fragrant Rosa Banksia. Comp. 171]. Ch., XX, 21 :—Ma tou ling or Vu tsling mu hiang, and [XXI, 2] tlu tslng mu hiang, good drawings representing an Aristolochia. See also Riu huang, XLV1, 15 :—Ma tou ling. The latter name (horse’s bell) refers to the shape of the fruit.— Ch., XXY, 11 :—Three miserable drawings of the tsrmg mu hiang, produced in Ch£u chou and Hai chon, and of the mu hiang from Canton. Tatar., Cat., 40 :—Mu hiang, and [27] huang (Canton) mu hiang, Costus amarus.—Gauger, 23 :—Kuang mu hiang described and figured. The root has a violet-like smell. It seems to belong to a plant of the Composite order and resembles the root of Inula Helenium. Hanb., Sc. pap., 257 :—Root mu hiang received from Shano; hai. It was the root of Aucklandia Costus, Falc. (Aplotaxis Lappa, Dene. Composita). Costus root or Putchuh.— Williams, Chin. Commerc. Guide, p. 100.— P. Smith, 29. In Dymock’s Vegetable Mat. Med. of W. India [p. 372] this plant is called Aplotaxis auriculata, DC., in Sanscrit kushta, in Arabic and Persian hast, in Bengal patchah. The root is collected in large quantities in the highlands of Kasluneer and exported to Punjab. It is much shipped to China. P. Smith is wrong in stating that putchuh is a Canton name for the drug.—Garcias ab Orto [middle of the 16th cent.] in his Indian Pharmacopoeia [Clusius, Exot. 204] says :—Costus in Malacca, ubi ejus plurimus est usus pu cho dictus et inde vehitur in Sinarum regionem. As to the mu hiang or tslng mu hiang produced ill China and called there also t‘u Islng mu hiang or via tou ling, 15