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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$Oust. Med., p. 22 (21):—Fang feng exported in 1885 from Tien tsin 2,319 piculs,—p. 44 (10), from Che foo 1,063 piculs,—p. 2 (11), from New chwang 746 piculs. A mam. e.vot., 825 :— boofu <f‘ fofu. Ligusticum vulgare.—Ibid., |L| [fj ]Hj san bofu, vulgo jamma bofu. Apium littorale folio Aquilegire pinguiore. According to Thbg. [FI. jap., 117] this is Peucedanum japonicum. Comp, also infra, 133. So moku, V, 10 :—[jjj Siler divarication. 32.—$} y£ tu law. P., XIII, 25. rl\, CXXXIV. Pen king:—Tu law, jjfc kHang law, 7^ Tg Viang tsHng, l|| ^ hu Viang slu die. The root is officinal. Taste bitter and sweet. Nature uniform. Non-poisonous. Pie lu:—Other name $g} ^ tu gao tslao (self-moving plant). The tu law grows in the river valleys of Yung chon [Mid Shen si, App. 424], also in Lung si [in Kan su, App. 216] and Nan yao [unknown, App. 232]. The root is dug up in the 2nd and 8th months and dried in the sun. This plant is not moved by wind, it moves only in still air, whence the above names [tu law means self-moving]. Wu P‘u [3rd cent.] calls it ^ hu ivang slii die. T‘ao TIung-king : — The localities mentioned in the Pie la all belonged in former times to the country of the K‘iang [Tibetans, Kukonor, App. 131]. The drug Viang huo which is produced in those localities is smaller, full of joints, succulent, and of a strong nature. That which comes from I cliou [in Sz chffian, App. 102], Pei tu [in Shan si, App. 246], Si ch‘uan [in Kan su, App. 296] is called tu lino. It is of a whitish colour, larger. Both are used in the same way.$