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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    and Kien p‘ing [E. Sz£ clffuan and W. Hu pei, App. 139] is of an inferior quality. Su Rung [7tli cent.]:—The drug spoken of by T‘ao IIung-king is the ^ l | tslao (herbaceous) tslung yung, he had not seen the fleshy sort or jou tslung yung. The drug now commonly used in China is the first, of which the flowers have been scraped off. It is less potent than the fleshy kind. Han Pao-sheng [10th cent.]:—The jou ts‘ung yung grows in the Fu lu hien district in Su chou [in Kan su, App. 47, 313], in a sandy soil. In the 3rd and 4th months the people dig up the root, which is more than a foot long, cut out from the centre three or four inches, pass a string through it and dry it in the sun. In the 8th month it is ready for use. The skin (of the plant) is scaly like the cone of a fir. As to the ts^ao (herbaceous) tslung yung it is gathered in the middle of the 4th month. It is from five or six inches to one foot long, has a round stem of a purple (violet) colour. Su Sung [11th cent.]:—The plant is found in all pre- fectures of the province of Shen si [modern Shen si and E. Kan su, App. 284] but this is inferior to the drug brought from the border of Si kffang [N.E. Tibet, App. 300] which is fleshy, thick and more potent. Ancient writers say that it is produced from the semen of the wild horse. Qh. [VII, 17]:—Jou ts‘ung yung. A rude drawing. No inference can be drawn from it. Tatar., Cat., 13 :—-Tslungyung and [04] jou ts‘ung yung, Orobanche preeparata.—-The same drug figured and described in Gauger [51]. He says it is a large tongue - shaped fleshy root covered with scales, in a. salted condition. In 1879 1 procured the same drug at Peking. It was said to bo brought from Mongolia. It proved to be LJhelipad salsa,