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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    Ibid., p. 66 (11) Sz ch‘uan:—Kliang huo exported from Han kow 1,821 piculs,—p. 58 (1), from I chang 383 piculs. Amain, e.vot., 820 :—doku quats, vulgo dosjen, ado. Frutex annuus, rad ice eduli, etc.—Sieb. & Zucc. [FI. jap., I, p. 57] identify this plant, described by Iv.empfek, with Aralia cordala, Thbg., or A. edulis, S. & Z. Kjempfeu is mistaken with respect to the Chinese and the first Japanese name, which do not belong to the plant he describes and which is Aralia edulis and has another Chinese name. [See 40.] So moku, V, 34, 35 :—$1} '/§■ Angelica japonica, A. Gray. —Phon zo, VI1, 10 :—Same Chinese name, Archangelica Gmelini, D.C. Japonice do/cukwats [comp, supra, K^empfer]. The umbelliferous plant figured in the So moku [V, 37] and the Phon zo [VII, 10, 17] sub has not been identified by Franceet. 33.—H sheng ma. P., XIII, 21). T., CXLIX. Pen king :—Sheng ma (ascending hemp). The root is officinal. Taste sweet and bitter. Nature uniform, slightly cold. Non-poison ous. Pie lu:—Other names : J^J chon ma or chon sheng ma [some believe (Kuang ya, Wu P‘u) that Chou here denotes the ancient state of Chou in Mid Shen si, on the Wei River]. The sheng ma grows in the mountain valleys of I chou [in Sz cffiuan, App. 102]. The root is dug up in the 2nd and 8th months and dried in the sun. T‘ao IIung-king :—In ancient times the best kind was reckoned to be produced in Ning chou [Yiin nan, App. 234]. The drug is small, black and firm. Now that from 1 chou (Sz clfiuan) is of a good quality. It is small, and after the skin has been taken off shows a green colour. It is called ll