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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    Interesting notices regarding tlie pei mu, cultivated near Ning po, are found in tlie Reports on Trade [Chin. M. Customs] for 1869, p. 61, and for 1880, p. 142. It is there stated that these bulbs are much larger than the pel mu produced in Sz ch‘uan, blit do not possess medicinal properties to the same extent as the Sz ch‘uan drug.—See also the same Reports for 1879, p. 32, Han kow, regarding the Jjj or pet mu from Sz ch‘uan, where it is much cultivated and is in great repute for the treatment of several diseases. Father David states \_Journ. N. Ch. Br. Rs. Soc., VII, 212] that the pei mu which grows in the high mountains of Mu pin [Tibet, on the border of Sz clTuan] and the conns of which are much used in medicine, is a Fritillaria with yellow flowers. This is, according to Fraxchet [Plantce David., II, 130], Fritillaria Roylii, Hook.— Fortune [Res. am. the Chinese, 261] speaks of a Fritillaria with grayish white flowers, cultivated near Ning po for its bulbs, used in medicine. This is, it seems, the pei mu men- tioned in the Reports on Trade.—Henry, Chin, pi., 866 :—• The name pei mu in Hu pei is applied to a Rleione [Orchid), but this is not the Sz clfluan drug of the same name. Oust. Med., p. 76 (135):—J|| F[ jij: pei mu from Sz clfluan exported 1885 from Han kow 356 piculs,—p. 62 (51), from I chang 281 piculs.—Ibid., 190 (104), h B fij: native pei mu exported from Ning po 2,474 piculs. So moku, V, 81 :—jfl jij: Fritillaria Thunbergii, Micp (Uvularia cirrhosa, Thbg.). Yellow flowers.—See also Kica iv i, 10. 37.—g ^ pai mao. P., XIII, 45. T., CIII. Comp, lor other ancient names Bot. sin., II, 183, 459. Pen king:—Pai mao (white grass). The root is called MU ju ken, %u mao ken, lan ken. The root is