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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    there that the full name should be ±m SJiang Tang shen (Ginseng from Shang Tang in S.E. Shan si), which name in ancient times was applied to the best sort of the true Ginseng. But as this latter has long disappeared in that locality [y. supra, 3] the people have applied the above name to the plant substituted for the genuine drug. Gauger [14] figures and describes the drug Tang shen, cylindrical roots. The plant has a square stem. He conjec- tures that it may be a Ruhiaeea.—Tatar. Cat. [19]: — Tang shen. Radix Convolvuli ? Comp, also P. Smith, 104, 48. Cast. Med., No. 1251:—Tang shen, Campanumrea pilosula, F ranch. Cast. Med., p. 70 (64):—Tang shen exported in 1885 from Hankow to other Chinese ports, 8,330 piculs. Ibid., 60 (24), from I chang 197 piculs.—Ibid., p. 481 (1251), places of production : Shan si, Shen si. Sz cliTian, Hu peh.—See also Jfanlc. Med., p. 43. 5.—jff tsi ni. P., Nila, 25.— T., CXLIII. Comp. Rh ya, 45. In the Pen Icing this name is given as a synonym for ki'e Jceng [see the next], but the Pie hi, which is followed by Li Shi-chen, keeps these drugs apart. According to the Pie hr the root of the tsi ni is used in medicine. Its taste is sweet, its nature cold. Non-poisonous. it counteracts the effects of poison. T‘ao IIung-king : — In its root and stem the tsi. ni much resembles Ginseng, but the leaves are different in shape and smaller in the tsi ni. The root is of a sweet taste and has the property of neutralizing poison. SiJ SUNG [11th cent.]:—The tsi ni is a common plant in Mid China, especially in Jun chou [in Kiang su,