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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    lie App. 391], that it has purple flowers and no seeds. The root used in medicine. All these names according to Li Shi- chen refer to the tu jo. The larger sort is called hao Hang /dang, the smaller tu jo. In the Thing period the tu jo was brought as tribute from Hia chou [u. supra]. Ch., XXV, 9 : — Tu jo. Representation of a Zlngi- heracea, probably an Alpinia, pi 3ji Hang Viang is given as a synonym. So mo/cu, VII, 13 :—^ Pollia japonlca, Hornst. (Commelinacece). 36.—fH ;H shan /dang. P., XlVa, 31. T., XLIII. As we have seen, Li Shi-chen takes the s/ian /dang or mountain ginger to be the same as the tu jo, but in the next article he describes it as a distinct plant, of which the root, the flowers and the seed are officinal. T‘ao Hung-king :—The eastern people (East China) call it shan /dang. In the south it is called IpC mei ts‘ao (beautiful plant). Chen Kuan [7th cent.]:—The root and the whole plant of the s/ian /dang much resemble ginger, but it (the root) is larger, has the smell of camphor-wood. The southern people eat it. There is one sort which is called chao tszi /dang. It is of a yellow colour, very pungent, acrid and strong [compare above, 55]. Su Sung [lltli cent.]:—The shan /dang is produced in Kiu chen [in Cochincliina, App. 154] and Kiao chi [Cochin- china, App. 133], but it is also found in Min [Fu kien, App. 222] and Kuang [Kuang tung and Ivuang si, App. 160]. The Ling piao lu i [T‘ang dynasty] says, regard- ing this plant:—The stem and the leaves all resemble the ginger-plant, but the root is not much eaten. The flowers resemble those of the tou Pou [ Cardamom. See 58],