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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    T‘ao IIung-king :—Now this drug is produced in Kan sung [in Sz ch'uan, App. lid] and Lung tung [App. 21d]. Worms eat the root and produce reticulate figures on it. It is twisted and contorted. The large root of a yellowish white colour is the best. Su Kung [7th cent.]:—The drug is commonly called ^ SU TsHn kiao. The original name was iHL TsHn kiu. The best is produced in King chon [in Kan su, App. 153], Fu chou [in Shen si, App. 43], K‘i chou [in Shen si, App. 120]. According to Siao Ping [Hang period] it is also called miK TsHn chao. Su Sung [11th cent.]:—It grows plentifully in North China (Shan si and Shen si). The root is of a dark yellow colour, twisted and contorted, one foot long. The leaves resemble Lettuce-leaves. In the 6th month it produces purple flowers resembling those of the ko \_Pachyrrldzus. See 174]. Li Shi-chen does not seem to know this plant. He says only that the name is derived from the country of TsHn [Kan su, Shen si, App. 358], where it is produced, and $(_, twisted. Ch., VII, 48 :—TsHn kiao. The drawing shows only the root and leaves. The text says that the plant grows on the Wu t‘ai shan mountain, in Shan si. P. Smith [102] thinks that the TsHn kiao is the Justicia gendarussa, hut he does not say whereupon this identification is based. Oust. Mecl., p. 66 (8):—TsHn kiao exported 1885 from Han kow 1,280 piculs, and p. 72 (86), the rind of the same drug 308 piculs,—p. 22 (11):—TsHn kiao exported from Tien tsin 786 piculs. It is said there to be the bark of Xanthoxylon alatum.13—P., 58 (2) from I chang exported 217 piculs. 10 13 Evidently confounded with 288 2V in tsiao.