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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    App. Ill], Shen chon [in Ho nan, App. 283]. The root is dug up in the 2nd and 8th months and dried in the sun. It is of a pleasant sweet taste. The people nse it also for food. According to Li Shi-chen the ^ |§| king shen (apricot [leaved] Ginseng) mentioned by Su Sung is the same as tsi ni. Lt Srii-cnEN says :—The tsi ni in its leaves resembles the lie keng (.Platycoclon), in its roots the Ginseng, for which it is fraudulently substituted. The Kin huang pen tslao calls it 1^2 yd? [§> hing ye slut shen (slice shen with apricot leaves), also pai mien lcen (white flour root). Another name is Vien hie keng (sweet kie keng, see the next). Its leaves resemble apricot leaves, but they are smaller, slightly pointed, toothed and white underneath. The corolla of the flower is bowl shaped, 5 cleft, white, sometimes blue. The root is like a wild carrot, gray outside, and with white hairs (filaments) within. The leaves as well as the root are used for food. The leaves are also known under the name [>(§ AV V,n Ven and employed to destroy intestinal worms. This name is found in the Rh ya [84]. The Kin huang [LI, G] and Ch. [VIII, 69] figure sub lung ye sha shen a Campanula or Adenophora. Blue flowers. So rnoku [III, 10] :—^ Adenophora remotijlora, Miq. Hid. [Ill, 9]:—^ Hi Adenophora latifolia, Fischer. G.—^ kie keng. P., Xlla, 28.— 7\, CLI. The Pen king makes the kie keng and the tsi ni [see the preceding] to be the same, but the Pie lu and all subsequent writers agree in keeping them apart. Of both of these plants the root is officinal. That of the kie keng is of a pungent taste; nature somewhat warm and slightly poisonous. The stem and the leaves 50) are also uscd medicine.