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

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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$sometimes erroneously written ^ Intctng slu. The leaves of the huang Pi resemble those of the huai (Sophora japonica) but are smaller and pointed. They resemble also the leaves of the tsi U (Tribuhts fewest ris) but are broader and larger, and of a whitish green colour. The flowers are of a yellowish purple colour, as large as those of the huai. The fruit is a pointed pod, one inch and more long. The root is from 2 to 3 feet long. That which is tight and solid, like the shaft of an arrow, is the best. The young leaves are edible, and therefore the plant is also cultivated as a vegetable. The Kiu huang [XLVI, 13] and the Ch. [VII, 3] represent sub huang Pi a leguminous plant. Tatar. Cat., 10 : huang PiRadix Sophoraj flavescentis. The latter is a common plant in North China. Gauger [8], who describes and depicts this Chinese drug, is of opinion that it is the root of an Astragalus. This view is confirmed by Father David, who in the account of his journey in S. Mongolia speaks of a large herbaceous plant huang tchg, of the order Leguminosce, the root of which is dug up there and sent to China as a medicine. Francuet \_Plantie David. Mongol., 8ti] described it as Astragalus hoang tchg. In Hupeh the drug huang kli (chli) is derived from Astragalus Henryi, Oliv. [<$<?*? Henry’s memorandum in Hooker’s leones. Plant., tab. 11)59.] Comp, also my Early Europ. Res. Dot. Chin. [p. 117], Loureiro’s Robinia Jlava and infra 7 sub. huang tsing. F. Smith, 202 : huang Pi, Sophora tomentosa. But [p. 180] he identifies erroneously the same Chinese name with Ptarmica sibirica. Cust. Med. p. 21 (25), huang Pi exported from Tien tsin 3,545 piculs,—j). 58 (10) I cluing 221 piculs,—p. 68 (26) Han kow 1,450. — F. 451 (510): Flaces of production: 3$