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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    The root (bulbs) officinal. Taste pungent. Nature uniform. Non-poisonous. Pie la:—Other names : ?f/j Pin mu, ^ Pu tslai, ^ ^ hlu haa, ]|l Puncj tslao. The pei mu grows in the country of Tsin [Shan si, App. 353]. The root is dug up in the 10th month and dried in the sun. T‘ao Hung-king :—The root resembles cowry shells collected together, whence the name pei mu. Su Kung [7th cent.]:—Leaves like garlic-leaves. The root ought to be gathered in the 4th month, when garlic is ready. In later months it is not good. The best drug is brought from Jun chou [in Kiang su, App. Ill], King chou [in Hu pei, App. 146] and Siang chou [in Hu pei, App. 305]. It is also produced in Kiang nan [South of the Yang tsz‘, App. 124]. Su Sung [11th cent.]:—Localities enumerated where the drug is produced, in present Kiang su, An hui, Ho nan, Hu pei, S. Shan si. Its leaves resemble those of buckwheat. It bears greenish flowers resembling in shape the hu tsz‘ [Convolvulus. See 169]. The root is dug up in the 8th month. It consists of many (small) bulbs collected together and resembling cowry shells. There are many sorts of pei mu. Ch., VII, 42 :—Pei mu. Representation of a tuberous plant with hastate leaves. Lour., Floe, cochin., 423 :—Thalictrum sinensO (a plant known only from Loureiro’s description), sinice poi mu. Radix tuber subrotundus, solidus, albissimus. Root used in medicine. P. Smith, 225 :—Pei mu, Uvularia grandiflora, and [112] pei mu, Ilermoclactyle or corms of Colchicum. Both identifications are wrong.