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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    22.—wang sun. P., XI15, 35. T., CXXYI. Pen king:— Wang sun. The root is officinal. Taste bitter. Nature uniform. Non-poisonous. Pie lu:—The wang sun, otherwise called ]g|; huang (yellow) sun, ^ liuang hun, grows in Hai si [in Kiang su, App. 50] in river valleys, also near the wall of the city of Ju nan [in Ho nan, App. 110]. Wu P‘h [3rd cent.] says, in ClTu [Hu kuang, App. 21] it is called wang sun, in Ts‘i [N.E. Shan tung, App. 313] ^ is cPang sun or JH hai sun, in Wu [Kiang su, An hui, App. 330] it is Jj] JpL pai hung ts‘ao or ^ $£ man gen. T!ao Hung-king says that in prescriptions the wang sun is also termed j|f huang hun and ^ mou meng. But later authors prove that this is a mistake, for huang hun is the same as the ho huan [Acacia. See 321] and mou meng is the tsz‘ shen [r. 21], Ch‘en TYang-kT [3th cent.] calls it Jp. ^ han ou (Xelumhium root in a dry soil). The root resembles that of Xelumhium speciosum. It grows in the T‘ai Hang mountain range [in N. China, App. 323]. Li Shi-chen :—The leaves of the loang sun are crowded towards the top of the stem as in the tsz' ho chle [Paris. See 151]. These leaves resemble the leaves of the hi hi [Chloranthus. See 42]. The drawing of the axing sun in the Pen ts‘ao hang mu seems to be intended for a Paris, the leaves of this genus, as is known, being whorled at the apex of the stem. Ch., VIII, 3 :— Wang sun. Drawing indistinct. Comp, also Henry, Chin, pi., 320. So moku, VIL, 31, 32:—Paris quadrifolia, L., and P. tetraphylla, A. Gray.