Irano-Sinica— China Root, Paper 557 



^odu<Td by the Portuguese by a nasalized vowel or d^hthong^ or 

 nstanee, Jo ("typhoon"), given by Fe m o Pmto »Ji^to«e 



+;™ of thP root is rat* do China ("root of China j. 

 U The re s loveriand trade in this root from China by way of M» 

 t Jo Ladakh, and probably also toPersia. The P^nt has beento^n 

 to the Chinese from aneient times, being described by T ao Hun mn. 

 Thl emplo^ent of the root in the treatment of Morbus americanus 

 ■lhe employment _ described at length by Li Si-Ben, who 



£££££ W 5 K 6 * S celebrated physician, who lived 

 quotes this tert Irom iw author o£ the Pen ts -ac M 



\™,,«t of Garcia 3 Li Si-cen states expressly, The yan-met uicerb 

 riifadin the ancient recipes, neither were there any people 

 Xcted witb this disease. Only recently did ,t arise m Kwan-tun, 



whence it spread to all parts of Chin£ enumerates onl7\ 



„a Of Chinese loan-words in Persian, xiukjn oh * 



SU "tea") ^("teapot"), «- ("paper money"), and perhaps also 

 6» ( tea >< ca °°"*- v Aswiu te seen, there are manymore Chinese 



Persians received the knowledge of paper from the <W=^«^ 

 be traced to a term faxWft »« (ancient pronunciation kok-dz) 



; ££«~ £"* P . * - <* ♦* » « ». »«— ««• **■ 



^'.Thave sXnt materia! to enab.e me to publish at some later date a detaned 



history of the disease from Chinese sources. 



« Grundriss der iran. Phil., Vol. I, pt. 2, p. 7- 

 ^. td \r^ t iRnn n 12* or Chines. Studien, p. 209. 



adopted by the Persians and from the P =^ ns b J ™ e . "^ from this vacillating 



