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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    I may observe, regarding the name mu ts‘ui ta, as given in Chinese Buddhist books, that musta or mustuka is a Sanscrit name for Cyperus rotundus, L. Regarding the Japanese cyperaceous plants, to which the above Chinese names are applied, see Bot. sin., II, 97. There is another cyperaceous plant with officinal tubers which is described in the P. [XIV5, 55] under the name $|J Hi H san leng, from the country of King (Hu pei). San leng (triquetrous) is a general name for several cyperaceous plants. See the drawing Ch., XXV, 55.— T., CLXXVII. Tatar., Cat., 44 :—San leng tslao. Rad. Cyperi seu Seirpi.—Gauger [37] describes and figures the san leng. Tuber about one inch in diameter.—P. Smith, 82 :—King san leng, Cyperus rotundus. Cust. Med., p. 70 (53) :—San leng exported 1885 from Han kow 109 piculs,—p. 130 (147), from Chin kiang 60 piculs,—p. 188 (76), from Xing po 29 piculs,—p. 92 (70), from Kiu kiang 5 piculs. Comp. Plion zo, IX, 33 :—)fij ^ Cyperacea. 60.—if! hiin ts‘ao. P., XIV6, 72. T., CVIII. Pie lu:—The hiin ts‘ao, which is also called ^ jpi hui tslao, grows in low, marshy places. It is gathered in the 3rd month and dried in the shade. That with the joints taken off is good.—The same Pie lu says also:—The [ hiin shi (fruit) grows in marshes in Lu shan [in Ho nan, App. 203]. The whole plant is officinal. Taste sweet. Nature uniform. Non-poisonous. T‘ao Hung-king :—According to the Yao lu [attributed to T‘ung Kun, a minister of Emperor Huang ti], the hiin tslao has leaves resembling those of the ma (hemp) and each two