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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    [see 18] but arc not serrated or dentated. They are of a yellowish green colour, the under side is paler. The root is crooked and covered with erect dense black hair, like that of the kou tsi, but it is larger and resembles an owl. Ch. [VIII, 18]:—Kuan chung. Representation of a fern with large pinnate fronds, covered with spores. Root covered with dense hair. According to M. Fauvel [“Trip of a Naturalist to the Chin. Far East,” 11], in Shan lung the name kuan chung is applied to Aspidium falcatum, Sw., a fern, known also from Fu kien and S. SEen si. Henry [Chin, pi., 199, 200]:—Kuan chung. This name in Hu peh is applied to several ferns, viz. Woodwardia radicans, Sm., Onoclea orientalis, Hook., Nephrodium jili.x mas, Rich. Oust. Med., p. 344 (69) :—Kuang cluing exported from Canton to other Chinese ports 15 piculs,—p. 278 (61), from Amoy 0.43 piculs.—Ibid., p. 457 (647) Places of production: Fu kien, Kuang tung. Plion zo [ArI, 3, 4]:—^ Fern. According to Franchet : Lomaria ni.pponica. 15.—B fg 'it pa ki Vien. P., XIR, 20. T., CLXXIV. Pen king:—Pa ki Vien. The root is officinal. Taste bitter and sweet. Nature slightly warm. Non-poisonous. Pie lu:—The pa ki V’ien grows in Pa [E. Sz clTuan, App. 235] and in Hia p‘ei [in Kiang su, App. 63] in mountain valleys. The root is dug up in the 2nd and 8th months and dried in the shade. T‘ao Hung-king :—At present the people use also the drug which comes from Kien p‘ing [in Sz clkuan and