MATERIA MEDICA OF THE ANCIENT CHINESE. 545 
The Pen king and the Pie lw notice several peculiar 
kinds of bamboo as officinal. 
Of the 3 7 kin chu, the leaves, sap (#) and root are 
used ; of the #8 #f tan chu, the leaves and the root ; of the 
Pf ku (bitter) chu, the leaves and the sap. 
In the P. there appears also a drug derived from the 
bamboo and termed ff Hj chu ju. It is mentioned in the 
Pie lu and in other ancient works. 
Tarar. [ Cat., 17] gives the name but does not identify 
it. P. Smrra [31] says that bamboo-roots are meant. I 
have seen Tararinov’s drug. It seemed to be bamboo- 
shavings, probably the scraped tender epidermis of the skin, 
which in the dictionaries is called $f ju. 
Cust. Med., p. 194 (156) :—Bamboo -leaves exported 
1885 from Ning po 259 piculs,—p. 152 (188), from Shang- 
hai 181 piculs, 
Ibid., p. 380 (539):—Chu ju exported from Canton 
17.91 piculs,—p. 308 (507), from Amoy 2.42 piculs.— 
Bamboo-roots are exported from Han kow. See Hank. 
Med., 8. 
358.— HE Je huai mu. P., XXXVI, 26. 
Pen king:—Huai mu, & Wk ih Ht 7K po sue ch‘eng 
chung mu. 
Pie lu:—The huai mu grows in Tsin yang [ia ome 
App. 357], in marshes. The Ih BE ae FE ch ‘eng li ch’ chu 
in P ‘ing yang [in Shan si, App. 257]. 
li Sat-cuen:—Wv P‘u [8rd cent.] says :—The hua 
mu grows in Pting yang, in the country of Tsin [Shan si, 
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