32 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
all are eaten. For medical use the root is steeped in | 
or administered in powder. The leaves much resemble 
leaves of the poisonous plant hou wen [see 162], and 
frequently confound this plant with the huang tsing. 
Taoist books the huang ising is also called fl A. BR Re 8 
jen yit Liang (extra ration of the immortals). 
The Taoists consider the huang tsing to be a kind 
chi (plant of immortality) and therefore call it alo 
Be = huang (yellow) chi, JE B SF wu hi chi. 
Let Hrao [5th cent.]: 
—The kou wen [v. supra], whi 
is injurious to life, 
resembles the huang tsing. , 
Su Kune [7th cent. ]:— When growing in a fat soll 
the root of the huang tsing attains the size of a fist, but in poor 
soil it is not larger than the thumb, It is akin to the we ) 
The kou wen is quite a different plant. 
CH‘Een Ts‘ana x4 (8th cent.J:—The true huang teing 
has opposite leaves, There is one kind of it in which the 
leaves are all inclined on one side. This is called fi Bi 
prien tsing ( p‘en = inclined on one side). T‘ao HunG-KING | 
is incorrect in stating that the hou 
tsing. 
Su Sune [11th cent.]:—The huang ising is as common 
in North China as in the South. The best drug comes from 
Sung shan (in Honan, App. 317] and Mao shan Li 
Kiang su, App. 218). Th 
feet high, 
shorter. They stand opposite, 
wen resembles the huang 
two and two together. The — 
> its lower part is red. In the 4 
flowers of small beans. The seed is 3 
ellow root, which has some : 
S ginger-root, is very sweet and of a — 
Pleasant taste, It ig dug up in the second month, boiled, 
