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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    Henry, Chin. pi., 190 :—Klu shen in Hu pei is Sophora Krone/, Hance. Cost. Med., p. 344 (68) :—Klu shen root exported 1885 from Canton 56 piculs, — p. 122 (33), from Chin kiang 4 piculs,—p. 294 (304), Pu shen seeds exported from Amoy 3 piculs. So moku, XIY, 28 :—^ Sophora august /folia, S. & Z. According to the Ind. FI. sin. [I, 202] this is identical with <8. Jlavescens, Ait., a common plant in North and Mid China. S. Kronei has also been reduced to this species, which at Peking is called ^ ye (wild) huai. 35.—Q Jp pat sien. P., XIII, 36. 71, CLYIII. Pen king:—Pai (white) sien (strong smell). The rind of the root is officinal. Taste bitter. Nature cold. Non- poisonous. Pie lu:—The rind of the pai sien (root) is produced in Shang ku [in Chi li, App. 272] in river valleys, also in Yuan kil [in Shan tung, App. 415]. It is gathered in the 4th and 5th months and dried in the shade. T‘ao Hung-KING :—It is also called 0 pai yang (goat) sien. These names refer to the white colour of the root and its strong smell, like the odor of goats. It is therefore also termed 0 fjg pai shen (the second character = odor of goats). It is a common plant in Mid China. The best sort is produced in Shu [Sz ch'uan, App. 292]. Su Kung [7th cent.]:—The plant grows more than a foot high. Its leaves resemble those of the Chu yii [ Boymia vntcjpc.arpa. See 291]. The root has a white rind, is juicy. Purplish white (violet) flowers. The root should be dug up in the second month, for in the 4th or 5th it has already lost its power.