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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    Cast. Med., p. 4 (22). New cliwang exported in 1885 Liquorice to other Chinese ports 1,767 piculs,—p. 30 (100), Tientsin exported 4,576 piculs,—p. 4G (18), Cliefoo exported 8,600,—p. 68 (34), Hankow exported 1,148,—p. 455 (587). Liquorice, places of production :—Chili, Shan tuug, Slien si, Ivan su. In 1882 I sent some specimens of Chinese Liquorice root from Shan si to Prof. Ur. Fluckiger, who in the 2nd edition of his Pharmacognosie [p. 355] writes that he is not able to distinguish it from Spanish Liquorice of the first quality. The Liquorice root used in medicine in Europe is derived from Glycyrrhiza glabra, L., indigenous in Southern Europe. The typical form of this supplies the Spanish Liquorice, which is considered to be the best. The variety glandulifera, which grows in Hungary, South Russia, yields the Russian Liquorice, which is likewise derived from Gl. echinata, L. Locreiro [PL cochin., 543] states that Chinese Li- quorice root is yielded by Gl. echinata and glabra of the northern provinces of China. [See my Early Europ. lies. El. China, p. 145.] Binge [Enurn. pi. Chinee bar., 37] records Gl. glanduU- fera from the neighbourhood of Peking and the Great Wall. Przevalsky [Mongolia, Tangut, etc., Engl, edition, 1, 131] states that the root of Gl. uralensis, Fischer, one of the characteristic plants of the Ordos, is dug up there by the Mongols, hired bv the Chineso, who despatch the drug down the Huang ho to supply the Chinese markets. The same plant is recorded by Father David [Franchet, Plantce David. Mongol., !J3] from the Peking plain and Southern Mongolia. It grows also in the Altai and Ural mountains.