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

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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$Pie hi:—Other names : ££ tu lien, ^ jo chi, Q ^ pai Pin, Q pai lien. The tu jo grows in the marshes of Wu ling [in Hu nan, App. 394] and in Yuan kii [in Shan tung, App. 415]. The root is dug up in the 2nd and 8th months and dried in the sun. In the Kuang ya it is called ^ cPu heng. T‘ao Hung-king :—It is a common plant. Its leaves resemble hieing (ginger) leaves and are veined. The root resembles the kao Hang kiang (Galanga), but is smaller, of a pungent taste and fragrant. It is also very much like the root of the siianfu \_Calgstegia. See 169] and is confounded with it, but the leaves are different. The tu jo is mentioned as a fragrant plant in the Elegies of TsTi [4th cent. B.C.]. Su Kung [7th cent.]:—The plant is common in Kiang and Hu [Mid China, App. 124, 83]. It grows in shady places. The plant resembles the lien kiang [a Zingiberacea. P., XlVn, 29], the root the kao Hang kiang. Han Pao-Sheng [10th cent.]:—The plant resembles the slum kiang [Alpinia. See 56]. Yellow flowers, red fruit, as large as small jujubes. Inside the fruit resembles the tou Pou [Cardamom. See 58]. That produced in Ling nan [S. China, App. 197] and Hia chou [in Hu pei, App. 64] is the best. The Fan tsP hi jan says that the tu lieng and the tu jo are produced in the southern prefectures and in Han chung [S. Shen si, App. 54]. Li Siii-chen : — There is in the mountains of Ch‘u [Hu kuang, App. 24] a plant which the people call ]]£ j| ;jjl Hang kiang ken (root). It resembles ginger and is of a pun- gent taste. This is the plant which Chen Kuan [7th cent.] notices under the name chao tsz‘ kiang.20 Su SuNG [11th cent.] calls it |[| slum kiang (mountain ginger) and states that it is produced in Wei chou [in Ho nan, 50 Chao t.i;‘ a barbarian tribo in the S.W, of China,$