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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    the name ^ huang Pin. The fresh root is also called m i tliao Pin. The drug produced in the north is of a deep yellow colour. Ch., VII, 36 : — Huang Pin. The figure seems to intend a Scutellaria. Tatar., Cat., 10 :—Huang Pin, Radix Scutellaria! oiscidulce, Bge. (which has yellow flowers). But in his drawings of Peking plants, Tatarinov applies the name huang Pin to S. macrantha, Fischer, with blue flowers. This latter is a Siberian plant, common also in North China. It is the Cassida montana in Amman’s Stirp. rar. ruth. (1730), p. 42, tab. G. Radix carnosa extus et intus flava saporis subamari, etc. P. Smith, 104 :—Sc. viscidida. The drug huang Pin obtained from an apothecary’s shop at Peking were thin transversally cut slices of a yellow, bitter root. Henry, Chin, pi., 141 :—Iluang Pin. In Hu pei a name for Berberis nepalensis, Spr.12 Cast. Med., p. 24 (26) :—Iluang kin exported 1885 from Tien tsin 5,530 piculs,—p. 44 (16), from Che foo, 517 piculs,—p. 68 (27), from Han kow 162 piculs. So moku, XI, 48 :—^ ^ Scutellaria macrantha.—See also Kwa wi, 14. 2b.—d'slin kiao. P., XIII, 16. T., CXXXIX. Pen king:—7Yin kiao. The root is officinal. Taste bitter. Nature uniform. Non-poisonous. Pie lu:—The ts‘in kiao grows in Fei wu [in Sz ch‘uan, App. 37], in mountain valleys. The root is dug up in the 2nd and 8th months and dried in the sun. 12 “This name I have since i'ound to be erroneous.—A. Hekkv.