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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    Pie la:—The chi mu is also called s ft k‘u sin (hitter heart), rh ts(ao. It grows in the river valleys (plains) of Ho nei [S.E. Shan si, App. 77]. The root is dug up in the 2nd and 8tli months and dried in the sun. T;ao Hung-KING:—Now the chi mu is met with in P‘eng cli'eng [in Iviang su, App. 247]. It (the root) resembles the cldang plu \_Acorus, see 195]. The leaves are succulent and have a great vitality, and even when dried by fire the plant survives. Sr Sung [11th cent.]:—The plant is found in the pre- fectures of Pin chon [in Shan tung, App. 251], Ho chon [in Kan su, App. 73], in Huai chon [in Ho nan, App. 93], in AVei chou [in Ho nan, App. 381], Chang te [in Ho nan, App. 5], likewise in Kie chou [in Shan si, App. 135], Ch‘u chou [in An hui, App. 25]. In the 4th month it opens its green flowers resembling those of Allium. In the 8th month its fruit is formed. Under the name of chi mu the Ch. [VII, 41] figures three different plants, all bad drawings. One of them represents a plant with lanceolate leaves and may perhaps be intended for Anemarrhena asphodeloides} Bge., which plant in the Peking mountains, where it is common, is known as chi mu. Tatar., Cat.., lfi : — Chi mu, Radix Anemarrheme aspho- deloides et Ophiopogon.—Gauger [42] describes and figures the chi mu. He says : Rhizomes of a monocotyl plant, having the appearance of the root of Acorus Calamus. Comp, also Han., Sc. pap., 259. P. Smith [57] identifies the chi mu erroneously with Chelidonium. Cast. Med., p. 22 (9):—Chi mu exported 1885 from Tientsin to other Chinese ports 3,400 piculs. — A small quantity is also exported from Chefoo, p. 44 (fi).—P. 43G (136) :—Place of production : Chi li.