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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    For other ancient names compare Rli ya, 97. Pie lu: — The so tslao grows wild. It (evidently the root) is gathered in the 2nd and 8th months. Taste sweet. Nature slightly cold. Non-poisonous. The leaves and the flowers are likewise officinal. T‘ao Hung-king: — This plant is mentioned in the Shi king. It is no longer used as a medicine. There is a medicinal plaut [ shu so, but that is different. Su Kung [7th cent.]:—The root of the so is called hiang fu tsz1 [hiang = fragrant, fa tszi properly the small tubers of Aconite. See 143] also ^ ^ tsio t‘ou hiang (sparrow-head fragrance). The stem and the leaves of the plant resemble the san leng (triangular grass, Scirpus, Cypenis). It (the root, tubers) is used as a perfume. Su Sung [11th cent.]:—It is a common plant, which in its leaves resembles the hiai [Allium. See 242] but is weaker. The root resembles the head of a chopstick. In a topographical work of the Thing period the ^ shui hiang leng (cornered fragrant water-plant) is spoken of as growing in the ponds and marshes of Po p‘ing [in Shan tung, App. 260]. Its root is called so hie (so knot) also j|T pfj' -J* tslao fu tsz1. In Ho nan and Huai nan [An hui, Kiang su, App. 90] it is known by the name of 7j< l shui so, in Lung si [in Kan su, App. 216] they call it ftk m ti lai ken, in Shu (Sz ch‘uan) it is ff( ijj)f su hen (attached root tubers) also 7jk E s^lul Pa The P^anf now grows abundantly in Fou tu [in Sz chTian, App, 42] and is called there ]£ Jp! san leng tslao (triangular grass). It is used for making shoes. The whole plant, and especially the root (tubers), is used in medicine. K‘ou Tsung-shi [12th cent.]:—Iiiang fu tsz1 is the name for the tubers which are frequently found attached to