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which squills is commonly prescribed, and for which drug it 

 would make a very good substitute. 



Other names given by the Pe.ntsao for this drug are 4l§ ^ 

 (Ch'ih-mu), M # (Huo-mu), j^^ ^ (Ti-shen), ^ # (Lien-mu>, 

 =g= id, (K'u-hsin), % % (Erh-ts'ao), and tJc ^ (Shui-shen). 

 The term j^ ^ (Chih-mu) is also used as a synonym of ^ ^ 

 (Sha-shen) for Adenophora verticillata. In the Japanese lists 

 it is also used for Chclidoiimm mahis^ but we cannot find that 

 it is so used in China. 



ANEMONE CERNUA.— 1^ ilfi ^ (Pai-t'ou-wgng). Such 

 is the classification in the Japanese lists, and the Phttsao 

 description answers pretty well to this identification. But 

 Bretschneider says that at Peking this is Eupatormm kirillowii. 

 The Customs lists {965) say that the supply comes from Hupeh 

 and Kuangtung. The root and flowers are used in medicine. 



Judging from the variety of affections for which this 

 substance is recommended, one would feel assured that it must 

 be Pulsatilla^ and that Chinese physicians had gotten their 

 estimate of this drug from Galen. The following is a partial 

 list of the diseases for which it is held in repute. Fever, 

 insanity, ague, obstruction of the bowels, swelling of the neck 

 from anger, to promote the circulation of the blood, abdominal 

 pain, wounds from cutting or stabbing, nasal polypus, virulent 

 dysentery, "red" dysentery, toothache, all of the forms of 

 rheumatic pain, scrofulous glands, all forms of miasmatic 

 poisoning, hemorrhoids, and favus. 



ANGELICA ANOMALA.— ^ 12 (Pai-chih). Porter 

 Smith has identified this erroneously with Iris florenti7ia and 

 with Opopayiax. Other terms given by the Pentsao are j^ ^ 

 (Tse-fen), ^ -^ ^ (Pai-chih-hsiang), ^ ^ (Pai-ch'ih), ^ § 

 (Fang-hsiang), and ^- g| (Fu-li). The Customs lists (940) give 

 Szechuan, Hupeh, and Chekiang as the sources of supply. 

 The roots vary in size, are brownish externally, marked with 

 wrinkles and ridges and with resin dots in the bark. In- 

 ternally it is yellowish-white, and contains small points of 

 resinous or oily secretion. The odor is aromatic and the taste 

 somewhat pungent and bitter. It has long been a favorite 



