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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    fruit is as large as a hen’s egg and covered with white hairs more than an inch long, which hang down like tassels, thus resembling the head of an old man. Other authors quoted in the P. describe the pai t‘ou weng differently, not quite distinct. The plant intended by Su Rung may perhaps be a Pulsatilla (Anemone), the fruit of which, with the long feathery tails of the seeds, may be compared to an old man’s head. The Ch. figures under the name pai tlou weng two different plants, — IX, 52, a plant unknown to me, and VIII, 14, it seems, an Eupatorium. At Peking pai tlou weng is Eupatorium Kirilloioii, Turcz. So moku, X, 36 :—Q gf( ^ Anemone cernua, Tlibg. Oust. Med., p. 68 (48) :—Pai Von weng exported 1885 from Han kow to other ports of China 69 piculs. 25.—Q ^ pai ki. P., XII/', 39. T., CLYII. Pen king:—Pai ki, also ^ Je^L lien ki tslao, If *1! kan ken (sweet root). The root is officinal. Taste bitter.. Nature uniform. Non-poisonous. Pie lu:—The Q pai ki grows in Pei slum (northern mountains) in river valleys, also in Yiian kii [in Shan tung,. App. 415] and in Yiie slum [mountains of Yiie ? App. 420]. The same work says, the Q ^ pai ki grows in mountain valleys. Its leaves resemble those of the li hi [ Veratrum. See 142], the root is like a mortar. It is dug up in the 9th month. [Li Shi-chen says that the two drugs pai ki, differently written, are the same.] Wu P‘u [3rd cent.]:—The pai ki in its stem and leaves resembles the ginger plant and the li lu. In the 10th mouth purplish red flowers appear on the top of the plant. The root resembles a mortar, wherefore it is also called J[EJ /jiff-' kiu ken (mortar root).