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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    sinice som. Sisarum montanum Corceense. On the annexed plate [fig. 4] K.emffer correctly depicts the Ginseng root, but the plant he figures on the same plate as the true Ginseng is Siam Sins/', L., an umbelliferous plant, in Japanese mukago ninziii. Plum zo [Y, 4, 5] and So inokii [IV, 46]:—Panax Ginseng, japonice ninzin. According to the ancient Chinese authors the best sort of the true Ginseng was considered the JjfjL Sluing Tang shea or Ginseng from Shaug Tang in S.E. Shan si. But nowadays this Chinese name is applied to the root of C-odo- nopsis tang shen, Oliv., a Campanulacea. See Ur. Henry’s memorandum in Hooker’s Icon. Plant, [tab. 1966]. The Tang shen is figured in Gh. [VII, 49] as a climbing Campanulacea. 4.—^ ska shen (Sand Ginseng). P.} Xlla, 23.— T., CXL. Pen king:—Sha shen. Boot officinal. Taste bitter. Nature slightly cold. Non-poisonous. Pie lu:—Synonyms : ^ ^ Ling 7tCao (bellvvort, campanula), ^[] J3J: chi mu [this name is properly applied to another plant. V. 9], ^ f[j !Jan(J ju (goat’s teat), J|§ hu sii (tiger’s beard), ^ Pu sin (bitter heart). The sha shen grows in the river valleys (meadows) of Ho nei [S.E. Shan si, N. Honan, App. 77], in Yuan kii [in S.W. Shan tung, App. 415] and j|^ Pan yang [in N.W. Shan tung, App. 241], in the mountains. The root is dug up in the 2nd and 8th months and dried in the sun. Wu P‘u [3rd cent.]:—The sha shen is also called a# pai (white) shen. In the second ‘ month, when the plant first begins to grow, it resembles the Pui (Malva). The root is white, juicy, like the root of the mustard plant and as large as the wu tsiug (turnip). 4