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T‘so Hune-xrne :—Now this drug is produced in Kan 
sung [in Sz ch‘uan, App. 114] and Lung tung [App. 214}. 
Worms eat the root and produce reticulate figures on it. 
It is twisted and contorted. The large root of a yellowish 
white colour is the best. 
Su Kune [7th cent.]:—-The drug is commonly called 
3% BS Tsin kiao. The original name was 38 ¥, Ts‘in hin, 
The best is produced in King chou fin Kan su, App. 153], Fu 
chou [in Shen si, App. 43], K4 chou [in Shen si, App. 120]. 
According to Stao Prxe [T‘ang period] it is also called 
3 JK Ts*in chao. 
Su Sune [11th cent. ]:—It grows plentifully in North 
China (Shan si and Shen si). The root is of a dark yellow 
colour, twisted and contorted, one foot long. The leaves 
resemble Lettuce-leaves. In the 6th month it produces purple 
flowers resembling those of the ko [Pachyrrhizus. See 174). 
Lt Sut-cuey does not seem to know this plant. He says 
only that the name is derived from the country of 3 Ts‘in 
[Kan su, Shen si, App. 358], where it is produced, and 
#L twisted, 
Ch, VII, 48:—Ts‘in kiao. The drawing shows only 
_ the root and leaves, The text says that the plant grows on 
— the Wu tai shan mountain, in Shan si. 
P. Sura [102] thinks that the 7s‘in hiao is the Justicia 
gendarussa, but he does not say whereupon this identification 
is based. 
Cust. Med., p. 66 (8):—Ts‘in kiao exported 1885 from 
Han kow 1,280 piculs, and p. 72 (86), the rind of the same 
drug 308 piculs,—p. 22 (11):—Ts'in Kiao exported from 
Tien tsin 786 piculs. It is said there to be the bark of 
Xanthoxylon dlatum.¥—P., 58 (2) from I chang exported 
217 Piculs, — : 
| : " Evidently confounded with 288 Zs‘in tsiao. a8 
