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

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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$The drug tslin kiao is unknown to me. I suppose the above identifications are both wrong. © 29.—ts‘z‘ 7m. P., XIII, 17. T., CXLIX. Pen king:— Tslz‘ hu, fijl, ti hun. The root is officinal. Taste bitter. Nature uniform. Non-poisonous. Pie lu:—The tslz‘ hu leaves are called ^ ^ gun hao. They are of a pungent taste, fragrant, and can be eaten. The plant grows in Hung nung [in Ho nan, App. 99], in river valleys, and in Yuan kii [in Shan tung, App. 415]. The root is dug up in the 2nd and 8th months and dried in the sun. Wu P‘u [3rd cent.] calls it |.Lj ^ slum tslai (mountain vegetable) and ^ ]p! ju ts‘ao (edible herb). T‘ao Hung-king :—It grows in Mid China, resembles the ts^n hu \_Angelica. See 30]. The Po wu chi [3rd cent.] says: The leaves of the yiin hao resemble those of the sie haou (an umbelliferous plant). The young white shoots, which appear in spring and in autumn, and are from four to five inches long and fragrant, may be eaten. It is found in Ch£ang an [present Si an fu in Shen si, App. 6] and Ho nei [in N. Ho nan, App. 77]. Su Kung [7th cent.]:—is the ancient form for ^ ch(ai (firewood), and the name of the drug is more commonly written ^ cPai hu. Su Sung [lltli cent.]:—This plant is common in North and Mid China. The best drug comes from Yin chou [in Shen si, App. 407]. The plant is very fragrant. Its stem is purplish green, rigid, shows fine lines (is channelled). The leaves resemble bamboo-leaves but are narrower and % ^ P., XXVI, 55.$