28 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
there that the full name should be Rt BB Shang 7 ang shen 
(Ginseng from Shang Tang in S.E. Shan si), which name 
in ancient times was applied to the best sort of the true 
Ginseng. But as this latter has long disappeared in that 
locality [v. supra, 3] the people have applied the above name 
_ to the plant substituted for the genuine drug. 
GavceEr [14] figures and describes the drug Tang shen 
cylindrical roots. The plant has a square stem. He conjec~ 
Comp. also P, Surra, 104, 48, 
Cust. Med., N 
Franch. 
Cust. Med., p. 70 (64) :— Tung shen exported in 1885 from 
Hankow to other Chinese ports, 8,830 piculs. Zhid., 60 (24), 
from I chang 197 piculs.—Thid., p. 481 (1251), places of 
produetion : Shan si, Shen si, Sz ch‘uan, Hu peh,—See also 
Hank, Med., p. 43. 
0.1251 :— Tung shen, Campanumea pilosula, 
5, — He FE tsi ni. ts Xia, 25.—T., CXLIII. 
Comp. Rh ya, 45, 7 
In the Pen king this name is given as a synonym for 
hie keng [see the next], but the Pie lu, which is followed by 
Li Sut-cuen, keeps these drugs apart, 
According to the Pie ln the 
medicine. Its 
It counteracts the effects of poi 
root of the ts né is used in ; 
