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
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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.

    87/638 (page 77)
    yuan [in Slum si, App. 267], in marshes, also in Han tan [in Chi li, App. 56], Lang ye [in Shan tung, App. 178] and Shang ts‘ai [in Ho nan, App. 276]. The root is dug up in the 2nd and 10th months, and dried in the sun. Wu Ptt [3rd cent.]:—The plant is also called [eJ ^ hui yiui and j§f ^ po fel. The leaves are slender, round, dark green and yellowish white. In the 5th month it bears yellow flowers, in the 6th black fruits. T‘ao Hung-king observes that a place Sha yuan does not exist [comp. App. 267]. The best drug comes from P‘eng clreng [in Kiang su, App. 247] and Lan ling [in Shan tung, App. 174] which is not far from Lang ye. It is also exported from Yu chon [App. 412]. A drug of an inferior quality is produced in Siang chou at the frontier of I yang hien [in Ho nan, App. 305, 107]. Su Rung [7th cent.]:—The drug produced in Ts‘i chon [in Shan tung, App. 348] and Lung sban [in Chi li, App. 213] is considered the best, but that from Tsz‘ chon [in Shan tung, App. 367], Yen chou [in Shan tung, App. 404] and Ts‘ing chou [in Shan tung, App. 363] is also 2;ood. The leaves resemble those of the mou hao <D [Artemisia. Bot. sin., II, 432] and the fa tsz‘ [Aconitum. See 134]. T‘ao ILung-king is wrong in stating that a place Sha yiian does not exist. Sha yiian lies south of Thing chou. But the drug which comes from that locality is inferior to that from the eastern provinces. Su Sung [11th cent.]:—It is a common plant in Mid China. Its leaves resemble the tsling hao (Artemisia) hut are shorter and smaller. When young they are of a purplish red colour. The people of Kiang tung, of Sung and Pols [in An hui, App. 124, 316, 25(J] eat the young is Or “ Po” in the country of Sung. [See App. 259.]