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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$T£ao IIung-king :—It is a common plant in the marshes of Mid China. The best drug conies from Wu liing [in Che kiang, App. 390]. The root resembles the cPai hu [u. 29] but is softer. Su Sung [11th cent.]:—It is a common plant in Mid and North China. The fr; igrant young sprouts are eaten. White flowers. The root is of a greenish purple colour. There are several sorts. Li Siii-chen :—The plant grows 2 feet high. The young leaves are eaten. Flowers of a dirty white colour resembling those of the she cPuang [ Cniilium. See 49]. The root is black outside, white internally, fragrant. The best is produced in the northern provinces. Kin huang, XVI, 29, and Ch., VIII, 24 :—TsHen hu. Representations of an umbelliferous plant, probably an Angelica. Tatar., Cat., 11: — TsHen hu. Rad. Angelica? ? — P. Smith, 17. Henry, Chin, pi., 59 :—TsHen hu in Hu pei is an Angelica. Cust. Med., p. 184 (8):—TsHen hu exported 1885 from Ning po 1,084 piculs,—p. 66 (5), from Han kow 277 piculs.—Small quantities exported from Fu chow and Pak hoi, p. 220, 414. So moku, V, 33 :—fj[] Angelica refracta, Fr. Schm. 31.—|^ fang feng. P., XIII, 22. T., CXXXY I. Pen king:—Fang feng, §[p] ^ dung gun. The root is officinal. Taste sweet. Nature warm. Non-poisonous. Leaves, flowers and seeds also used in medicine. Pie hi:—Other names of the plant: [E] hui. ts'ao, Jf Mi pHng feng, j£j Men ken, g ^ po chi [hundred branches, Comp, also 13]. The fang feng grows in Ska$