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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    Manchuria, Chi li, Shan tung, Sz ch‘uan, Shen si. Several sorts are distinguished on the Port lists and are probably yielded by different plants. There arc the hung (red) Pi, 451 (510) exported from 1 cluing, the pai (white) Pi and other kinds. So moku, XIY, 3 :—Iledysarum esculentum, Ledeb. (edible root). Kwa wi, 30 :—Same Chinese name, Astragalus lotoides, Lam. (same as Astr. sinicus, L.). So moku, XIV, 4:—yfc Mi (the first character means woody). Astragalus refiexistipulus, Miq. Siebold states that it was introduced into Japan from China. 3.-A §§| jen shen, the famous Ginseng root. P., XIla, 11. T., CXXV. Pen king:—A H?? also written AM jen shen, A llf jen Men, lH kui kai. The root used officinally.5 Taste sweet, nature slightly cold. Non-poisonous. Pie lu :—Other names : hue shen, » ^ shen ts‘ao (divine herb), fpf tsing (terrestrial essence). The jen shen grows in the mountain valleys of Shang tang [S.E. Shan si, App. 275] and Liao tung [S. Manchuria, App. 191]. The root is dug up during the first decade of the 2nd, 4th and 8th months. It is scraped with a bamboo knife and dried in the sun, protected from the wind. This root in its shape resembles a man (A jen-> whence the name) and is possessed of Divine power. Wu P‘u [3rd cent.]:—The plant is also called Mi ^ huang (yellow) shen. It grows in Han tan [S. Chi li, App. 50]. In the 3rd month it shoots forth leaves which are The leaves of the Ginseng, medicine. shen lu, are also employed in