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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    There is one kind of this plant in Sz chou [in An hui, App. 319] with red flowers and a large root. Another kind is produced in Sluing chou [in Shen si, App. 278]; it has a black root. Now the siao tslao, used in medicine in ancient times, is seldom employed. Li Shi-chen :—There are two kinds of yuan chi, one has larger, the other smaller leaves. The siao ts‘ao spoken of by T-ao Hung-king belongs to the latter, the plant mentioned by Ma Chi is the large-leaved. It has red flowers. Ch. [VII, 13] yuan chi and Kin huang [LIII, .5] representations of Polygala. Tatar. [Cat., 31] yuan chi, Had. Polygalce tenuifolice.— The roots of the yuan chi described and figured in Gauger, 24.—P. Smith, 175. Cast. Med., p. 72 (84):—Yuan chi exported 1885 from Han kow to other Chinese ports and Japan, 350 piculs,— p. 28 (73), from Tien tsin 150 piculs,—p. 48 (49), from Che foo 119 piculs,—small quantities from 1 chang, Chin- kiang.—Ibid., p. 493 (1557) Places of production : North and Mid China. The drug yuan chi. in China and Japan is yielded by Polygala sibirica (large-leaved), P. tenuifolia (small-leaved) and P. japonica. For further particulars see Pot. sin., II, 194, 443. 17.—yi>lyang huo. P., XIH, 24.— 7’., CLXXIX. Pen king :—Ying yang huo, also [tjjl] jji] hang tslien. The root and the leaves are officinal. Taste pungent. Nature cold. Non-poisonous. Pie In:—The yin yang huo grows in Shang kiln [in N.E. Shen si, App. 273] and in Yang shall [in N. China, App. 399], in mountain valleys.