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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    Henry, Chin, pi, 52 :—Kie keng, Platycodon grandiflorum. Common in Hu poll. Cast. p. 120 (7) : — Kie keng in 1885 exported from Chin kiang 2,102 piculs,—p. 44 (5) from Che foo 138,— }). 96 (5), from Wu hu GO,—p. 22 (7), from Tien tsin 10.— Hank. Med., 3 : Exported from Han kow. Places of pro- duction : An hui, Chi li, Hu nan, Hu peh, Sz clfiuan. Amcen. exot., 822:—^ kekko, vulgo kikjo and kirakoo. Rapunculus medicamentosus, foliis oblongis denticulatis. Radice palmari, pingui, lactescente, multiplicis virtutis, & secundum in usu medico locum ohtineute a radice nindsin (Ginseng) ; flore campanula, coeruleo.—Thbg. [FI. jap., 88] identifies K.empfer’s plant with Campanula glauca, which is the same as Platgcodon grandiflorum. [See China Review, XV, p. 346.] So moku, III, 4:—Same Chinese name, Platgcodon grandiflorum. t .- 'ill fra huang tsing. P., XIla, 32.— T., CLII. The above name appears first in the Pie lu. Synonyms given in the same work : t‘u chit, 'ff lu elm (deer bamboo), ^ p* j|l kiu Piling tslao (poor man’s relief), |§f ^ cluing lou, Id ko. The huang tsing is a mountain plant. The root is dug up in the second month and dried in the shade. Its taste is sweet, its nature is uniform. Non-poisonous. T‘ao Hung-kinu :—It is a common plant luxurious in foliage. The leaves resemble bamboo-leaves, but are shorter. The root resembles that of the toei. jui (Polggonatum, see the next) and also the root of the ti (a rush) and the cPang plu [Acorus, see 194]. It has large joints, is suc- culent. It is not commonly used in medicine, but the root is highly valued by Taoists. Hoot, leaves, flowers, fruit,