NOTE. 13 



in li'.iicy ;inil held over the tire. Thru pulverise it. As a (lose u<e half ;tii ounce. 

 Take it with honey and hot \vatrr. These capsules have (lie power to strengthen 

 the constitution. Tin- ettivt is immediate. 



Ill the Vl \\ Kl,:,stv the next liall.e is that of CHU ClI i:\-ll IA.. <?).* 



II . :.. The I'oppv capsule is used extensively tor rough at the present time 

 in the case of those who nn- weak and o iiisumpt ive. It is employed to take :r 

 the coii^h. It is used also Cor diarrh<ea and dysentery accompanied with local 

 inflammation. Though its etVects ;ire (jiiick. great care must he taken in usiiiL 



it kills like a knife." He also says, "Many persons to cure cough employ the 

 I'oppy capsule, and it may he us.-d without fear, but in the tirst place the root of 

 the disease must he removed, while this should be reserved as a restorative method 



'iiplete the cure. In treating dysentery the same is true. Unnatural symptoms 

 have to IK- expelled and lumps removed. It would not be right to employ at once 

 such medic! lie capsule and lung-ku (dragon's bones, certain fossil bones of 



existing and of extinct animals) in order to check abruptly the action of the stomach 

 and intestines, for the unnatural state of things would reappear with increased 



ity. Other mollifications of an unhealthy kind would supervene, and disease 

 would spread without limit. The expression "it kills like a knife" may be taken as 

 proof that the capsule of which the author is speaking is that of the Opium Poppy. 



That a red tint was common in the Poppies of that time may be concluded 

 from the following couplet in a poem of V\:\>. TzO-cnfix ('$, ? j$j), in the YI 

 dynasty : "They carry in their hair Poppies which are in colour like the red clouds 

 after rain and asters resembling the hoar frost" 



11. 



The first name that we meet with in the MIMJ dynasty is that of a uofciu 



fourteenth cen- 



brother Of the Emperor Cn'fexc Tsu (YUNG Lo). He was called CHOU-TINO WANG tui >'- 

 (JH) / D. He says in the P'u-chi-fang (# & 3f) section of Cli>"-fi>"n>yp>'/<-t.<;'ao 

 Ok Jfc ~fc $). a medical work. "The Poppy capsule prepared in vinegar is to be 



* Stt for particulars BRETSCHXEIDER'S Botaniean .S'intriim, page 49. He lived in the second half of the 

 fourteenth century. His biography is found in the Yuan-ihih (% ft). 



