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NOTES ON CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA. 



1860-62. it is brought from the province of Shansi. The plant is enu- 

 merated by Maximowicz in the Flora of Pekin. 1 



Chuen-keung. 



Tany-kwei. 



FIG. 13. 



$s ^ Yu-shuh; Eootof aplantof thenat.ord. Umlelliferce(T) 

 Contorted fleshy roots, anteriorly about f of an inch thick, but 

 lower down swelled into nodular tubers, an inch or two in 

 diameter, covered everywhere with a wrinkled brown skin ; 

 internally they are of a pale rusty colour, moist and easily cut, 

 and have -an aromatic odour and sweetish aromatic taste. 



Ill 2? 



/N ^ Chuen-Jceung ; Czuan-siun, Ead. Levistici? Tatarinov, 



Catal. Med. Sinens., p. 15. 



Nodular masses consisting apparently of the roodstock of 

 some umbelliferous plant allied to Angelica. The specimens 

 are from 1J to 2J- inches in diameter, having a very irregular, 

 rough,brown, outer surface, and a pale yellowish-brown, cavernous 

 interior. 



The odour of the drug resembles that of the root Tang-kwei 

 (next described). A decoction of these two roots is taken daily by 

 the Chinese women for some time previous to childbirth, under 

 the idea that it diminishes the dangers incident to such a state. 



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m itffi Tany-kwei ; Eoot of Aralia edulis, S. et Z. ( Umbelliferce), 

 Flora Japonica, tab. 25 ; DoJm quatz, vulgo Dosjen, Kaempf., 

 Amcen., p. 826 ; Pun-tsaou, fig. 155. 



1 Primit. Flor. Amur ens., p. 478. 



