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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    stand opposite. The leaves resemble elm-leaves but are narrower and longer, serrated on the margin. In the 7th month the flowers appear. They are of a dark red colour and resemble (the flower-head) a mulberry. The root is black outside, red internally, resembles the willow root. Li Shi-chen :—The Wai tan fang (alchemistic pre- scriptions) says, the ti yii is also called man che [sour che, r. supra'] for it is of a sour taste and of a brown colour. The same name is still applied to the ti yii by the people in K‘i chon [in Hu pei, App. 121, Li Shi-chen’s native place]. It is sometimes erroneously written suan tsao (sour jujube). The rude drawings of the ti yii as given in the Kin huang [XLYI, 80] and in the Ch. [VIII, 4] seem to be intended for Sanguisorba officinalis, L. (Poterium), the Burnet, with which the above Chinese description agrees. Tatar., Cat.. 21:—Ti yii, Rad. Hedy sari.—P. Smith, 110. Cast. Med., p. 350 (150):—Ti yii exported 1885 from Canton to other Chinese ports 47 piculs,—p. 146 (116), from from Shanghai, 8 piculs.—Ibid., p. 482 (1,273) Places of production : Che kiang, Kuaug tung, Kuang si. Our common burnet is a commen plant in North and Mid China. In the Peking mountains it is known by the name of ti yii. The Canton drug may be yielded by another plant, for in the Ind. FI. sin. [I, 246] no Poterium is reported from South China. Kwa tui, 29 :—hJj, {'jjij' or 3? Sanguisorba officinalis. So mofcu, II, 24 :—ifli jfij Poterium officinale, which is the same. 20.—# fg tan si ten. P., XII6, 32.-7’., OLVI. Pen king:—Tan slum (cinnabar coloured ginseng), Ipi hi eld an tsiao. The root is officinal. Taste bitter. Nature slightly cold. N on-poisonous.