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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    (jade bamboo). It seems what Hanbury bad before him were the rhizomes of a Polygonatum, but, having been misled by the Chinese name, he believed they belonged to a bamboo. P. Smith identifies yii dm and iveijvi erroneously [p. 31] with bamboo rhizomes and [p. 175] with 1'olygonatmn aviculare. Oust., Med., p. 48 (30) :—Yu chu, exported 1885 from Chefoo to other Chinese ports 307 piculs,—p. 352 (1G9) from Canton 100 piculs,—p. 20 (71) Tientsin 80,—p. 8 (08) New chwang 00,—p. 102 (73) Wu hu 41.—Smaller quan- tities exported from Kin kiang, Ning po.—P. 492 (1547). Places of production : Manchuria, Chi li, Shan tung, An lmi, Che kiang, Sz ch‘uan, Kuang si. Sieb., CEcon., 75 :—Convallaria latifolia. Japonice hanemumasu. Sinice i|| . So rnoku [VI, 3] same Chin, name, Polygonatum vulgare, All. Polygonatum vulgare is a common plant in the mountains of Northern China. The starchy mucilaginous root of it is eaten by the natives. The Chinese drug wei jui or yu cliu is probably derived from this species. 9.—ft] ^ chi mu. P., XIla, 39. T., CXXIX. Pen king :—Chi mu, also written ^ c^tl mv- Other names huo mu, hi] ti shea, j[ijl lien mu. Accord- ing to Li Shi-chen the second name (chli mu) means, mother of the e<i£S of ants, and is derived from the resemblance of the seeds, when they first begin to germinate, to ant’s eggs. The root is officinal. Taste bitter. Nature cold. Non- poisonous. For other ancient names see Rli ya, 94.