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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    this is, according to Tatar. [Cat., 12] Rad. Aristolochice. See also Hanb., Sc. pap., 259.—Tatar., Cat., 88 :—Ma tou ling. Fructus Aristolochia contortue (a Peking species).— Hanb., l.c., 239 :—Ma tou ling. Fruits of Aristolochia Kcempferi.—P. Smith, 22. According to the Customs’ Report on Trade for 1867 [p. 42] and 1868 [p. 51], the native puchuk grown in the neighbourhood of Ning po is a common garden creeper, an Aristolochia. Some years later Dr. ITance examined this plant. It proved to he a new species—A. recurvilabra. See Journ. Bot., 1873, p. 72. Henry, Chin, pi., 294 :—Tsling mu hiang in Hu pei, Aristolochia, sp. It is not quite clear whether the ts'ing mu hiang in the Cast. Med. is the foreign or the native drug. It is stated to have been exported 1885 from Han kow [p. 66 (9)] to the extent of 34 piculs,—and [p. 338 (20)] imported into Canton 24 piculs. Ibid., p. 28 (88):—Ma tou ling exported from Tien tsin 27 piculs. Dr. Henry states [in Hooker’s leones. Plant., tab. 1975] that Inula racemosa. Hook, fil., is cultivated in the mountains of Hu poll as a substitute for putchulc. Fiianciiet refers the drawings in the Phon zo [IX, 14, 15] sub j[f, and in the So mohu [XVII, 3, 4] sub Hi 7fv iSb to Inula Helenium, L.—Phon zo, XXVI, 4-6 :—[}]] Aristolochia Kccmpferi, Willd. r w DO.- 4± in jo. P-, XIVa, 30. T., CXLVIII. Pen king:—T(u jo, $q tu hengP Taste pungent. Nature slightly warm. The root is officinal. Non-poisonous. 18 Regarding this synonym see 11.