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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$imaginary on his part.—The yin yang huo which I obtained l’rom an apothecary’s shop in Peking were the leaves of Aceranthns sagittatus, a plant recorded by our botanists from Hu pei.—Comp. Henry, Chin. pL, 556. Oust. Med., p. 3G2 (286):—Yin yang huo exported 1885 from Canton to other ports of China, 30 piculs,—p. 74 (111), from Hankow 25 piculs,—p. 288 (227) a small quantity from Amoy.—Ibid., p. 402 (1,536) Places of production : Slien si, Hu peh, Fu kien, Ivuang tung, Kuang si. hid. FI. sin. [I, 32]. Three species of Kpimedium reported from Mid and North China. So moku [11, 45]:—, Aceranthns sagittatus. According to Siebold this plant has been introduced from China into Japan. 18.—d/ hiian shen (the first character is frequently substituted by 7yuan'). P., XII5, 28.— T., CLIX. Pen king:—Bilan shen (dark ginseng), also |ff Iff chung tlai. The root is officinal. Taste bitter. Nature slightly cold. Non-poisonous. Pie In:—The plant is also called Jjjg |§£ tuan shen, [ Men shen, JEM, clieng via. It grows in the river valleys of Ho kien [in Chi li, App. 75] and in Yuan kii [in Shan tung, App. 415]. The root is dug up in the 3rd and 4th months and dried in the sun. Wu P‘u [3rd cent.]:—The plant is also called d/ §f hiian Vai, J}|| lu cldang, kui ts‘ang. It grows in Yiian kii [t\ supra] and Shan yang [App. 270]. The leaves are covered with hair. They stand four opposite, resemble the leaves of the shao yo \_Pceonia. See 52]. The stem is black, square, from four to five feet high. The fruit is black.$