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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${Ilex') ; it contains small seeds. When the plant grows in a sandy soil its root is large and becomes more than a foot long, but when produced in a loamy soil it has a small short root. The root as well as the stem contain a white juice. The root is more juicy when dug up in autumn. The sha jen plant with root, leaves and flowers is figured in the Kin huang [LI, i] and Ch. [VII, ii]. The drawings represent a Campanulacea, probably an Adenophora. Gauger, 31:—Description of the sha shen root.— Tatar., Cat., 50: sha shen, Radix Adenophorce sen Cam- pamdce.—P. Smith, 4. Cast. Med., p. 46 (25) :—Sha shen exported in 1885 from Chefoo to other Chinese ports, 2,894 piculs.—P. 474 (1078). Place of production Shan tung, An hui. Henry, Chin, pi., 405 :—Sha shen in Hu pei is Adeno- phora polymorplia, Ledeb., and other species. Kiu huang, LI, 17, and Ch., VIII, 68:—^ [ [ si ye sha shen {slia shen with small leaves), bad drawings, roots and leaves. Amain, exot., 822 :— 'pi) H sadsin. Lychnis sylvestris, foliis Leucoji lanuginosis, flosculis albis pentapetalis . . . . radice Pastinacoe, ab impostoribus pro radice ninsin (Ginseng) supponi solita. — Kvempfer seems to be mistaken. The description of the flowers does not agree with a Campanu- lacea. In the So moku [III, 6, 7] fl)^ is Adenophova verticillata, Fischer. Ibid., 5 :—$0 ^ [ | Wahlenhergia marginata, A. DC. {Campanulacea). Doth these species are known also from China. There is a plant Tang shen figured and described in the Ch. [VII, 49]. Large root, bluish white bell-shaped flowers. Creeping plant, frequent in Shan si. It is said$