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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    smaller. In the 7th month it bears yellow flowers. The root is of a pale red colour, resembles that of the ts(ien hu [see 30]. A peculiar sort of the cldai hu grows in Tan chou [in Shen si, App. 327]. Li Shi-chen observes that the character 3B in ancient times was also used for ^ tsz‘ u purple ” and refers to Rh i/a, 142. He states that the cldai hu plant when young may he eaten, hut the old plant is used for firewood, whence the name. He further proves that the ancient authors confounded under the name of cldai hu several umbelliferous plants. The northern chlai hu is not the same as that produced in the south. Kiu liuavg, XLVI, 25, and Ch., VIII, 27 :—Cldai hu. Rude figures, probably intended for Bupleurum. Tatar., Cat., 14 :—Chlai hu, Radix Bupleuri octora- diati.—Gauger [41] describes and figures the root, which he believes to belong to an umbelliferous plant.—P. Smith, 45. In the Peking mountains the name cldai hu is applied to Bupleurum falcatum, L., and B. octoradiatum, Bge. Both have yellow flowers. The above Chinese descriptions of the cldai hu agree. Oust. Med.,, p. 66 (1) :—Cldai hu exported 1885 from Han kow 3,340 piculs,—p. 120 (1), from Chin kiang 197 piculs,—p. 22 (1), from Tien tsin 157 piculs. So moku, V, 41 :—^ j$] Bupleurum falcatum, L.— Comp, also Kwa xoi, 47. 30.— nTj $ tsHen hu. P., XTII, 21. T., CXLIX. Pie lu:—The root of the tsHen hu is dug up in the 2nd and 8th months and dried in the sun. It is of a bitter taste. Nature slightly cold. Non-poisonous,