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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    united tubers. The root (with its branches) resembles the claw of a bird. It is firm and juicy, of a deep yellow colour. The other sort has no tubers, is densely covered with hair, (radical fibres), is not juicy and is of a pale yellow colour. Ch., YII, 82 :—Huang lien. Only leaves and root figured. It seems a Ranunculaeea is intended. Tatar., Cat., 10: — Huang lien. Radix Leontiee.— Gauger [9], liuang lien and [10], Clduan huang lien (Jiuang lien from Sz chTian), figured and described. Jointed, yellow rhizomes, very bitter. P. Smith, 12G :—Huang lien identified with Justicia.n According to Parker [ China Review, X, 28] the liuang lien plant is much cultivated in the mountains of Sz chTian. It is Coptis teeta, Wall. (Order Ranuneulaceue). See Henry, Chin, pi., 187. The yellow bitter root liuang lien, which I obtained from a Peking apothecary’s shop, and which was examined by Prof. Fluckiger, seemed to belong to Coptis teeta. The root has sometimes the appearance of a bird’s claw. DymOCK, in liis Veget. Mat. Med. of TP. India, p. 13, states that the root of Coptis teeta is much exported from China to India. Cust. Med., p. 70 (59) :—Exported 1885 under the name of shui lien from Hankow to other Chinese ports 85fi piculs,—p. 58 (21) from I cluing 300 piculs.—Ibid., p. 452 (516) Places of production : Sz clfiuan, Hu peh, Shen si, Yun nan. So moku, X, 88 :—jgr ^ Coptis ancemomefolia, Sieb. & Zucc.—Ibid., 39, Jj. jjW ^ (five-leaved huang lien) = C. quinquefolia, Miq. Ibid., 40 :—^ jjii (three-leaved huang lien) — C. trifolia, Salisb. 11 “ I have visited a huang lien plantation in the mountains of Hu peh, and the plant is undoubtly Coptis tecta, Wall.”—A. JlKNUY.