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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    lias been derived from the Chinese kao Hang Idang. It seems however more naturally to trace it in kulanjana, the Sanscrit name for Galangal. So moku, I, 10 :—jsj ^ ^ Alpinia allied to A. chi- nensis.—Phon zo, IX, 20, 21:—Same Chinese name, same identification. 58.—tou k(ou. P., XlVa, 35. T., CXLVII. Pie lu:—The ion Pou grows in Nan lmi [Southern Sea, App. 228]. Seeds and flowers used in medicine. In the Nan fang i ivu chi it is called $|j [ lou Pou. Su Kung [7th cent.]:—The plant resembles the shan Idang [see 56]. The flowers are yellowish white. The root and the seeds resemble the tu jo [see 55]. Su Sung [11th cent.]:—The ~£h ^ ts'ao (herbaceous) tou Pou is a common plant in Ling nan [S. China, App. 197]. It grows like a reed. The leaves resemble those of the shan kiang. The root is like the root of the kao Hang kiang [see 57]. The flowers22 open in the 2nd month, they are in spikes at the bottom of the stem. The young leaves are rolled up. The flowers are of a reddish colour, darker at the end of the spike. Gradually the leaves become larger and the flowers paler. The flowers are sometimes of a yellowish white colour. The southern people collect the flowers and salt them. The fruit resembles the lung yen (Nephelium longan) but is pointed, and the rind (capsule) is not squamous. The seeds within the capsule resemble those of the pomegranate. They ripen in summer and are then gathered and dried in the sun. The root and all parts of the plant exhale an odour which recalls camphor-wood and are of a pungent taste. 2- Tliis account Is taken from an earlier work, the Kan fang ts'ao mu chmng [3rd cent.], ton lt'ou him.