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

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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$C. A. Meyer, order Orobanchacece. It consisted of the whole plant, salted, the stem about three inches thick and scaly. This plant is common in S. Siberia, Dsungaria, Mongolia. It has been gathered in 1874 by Dr. Piassetsky in Kan su \_lnd. FI. sin., II, 222]. The name tslung yung in China is probably applied to several plants of the order Orobanchacetn. Cast. Med., p. 70 (71) :—Tslung yung exported 1885 from Hankow to other Chinese ports 78 piculs. The drug is referred there, it is unknown to me on what authority, to Rida angustiflora [sic!], which is most probably a mistake. Braun [Hankow Med., 46] states that ts‘uny yang in Hankow is sEyinetia japonica, and gives ta yUn as a synonym. According to the Oust. Med., p. 26 (54) of the drug la yiln, in 1885, 562 piculs were exported. Ibid., p. 485 (1359) :—lYung yung, sEginetia, sp. Places of production : Chi li, Shan si, Sz ch‘uan, Hu peh. The drug ta yiln is unknown to me. Hoffm. & Schlt., 26 :—JEginetia japonica, Sieb. Zucc. [on the authority of Siebold]. Phon zo, V, 21, 22 :—fjjj ^ The plant figured there under this Chinese name is an Orobanchacea. The Ts‘ao tslung yung noticed in the above account has a separate notice given of it in the P. [Xlla, 43] under the name of lie tang, which plant is said there to be the same as the tslao (herbaceous) tslung yung. The lie tang, also called mm li tang is first spoken of in the K‘ai pao Pen lslao [10th cent.] as a plant growing on rocks in the province of Shan nan [S. Slum si, App. 268]. Its root resembles the root of Selumbiuni speciosum. It is used in medicine. Han Pao-sheng [10th cent.]:—It grows in Yuan chou, TVin chou, Wei chou, Ling chou [all in the eastern part$