HlsTolMCAL NOTK. 3'. 



/ "tyjis or Franks. I' because the Mahommcdans \\ished to keep the 



profits of the trade in Opium and other articles exclusively to themselves that they 



prejudiced the Chinese (Jovernors of Canton and Fuhkien against the Portuguese, 



and induced them to refuse tin- lilierty to trade. We need not be surprised, there- 



it' later on the cultivators of the Poppy in Yiinnan, in the commencement of 



entury. were M;ilionmted;ins : they may have been simply the continuators of the 



MINI, dynasty cultivation, or they may have commenced afresh with seeds brought 



from Burin i. 



29. 



In the year 1742 an Imperial work oil medicine was published under the u.e of capsules 



in 1742. 



name /'-/'' chien (fi K & IE). In this book, as a remedy for weak and 



injured lungs the capsules of the Poppy are directed to be used, with ginseng and 

 apricot kernels together with seven other medicines, prepared in the form of a 

 decoction, to be drunk warm. Mention is also made of a Poppy ointment for scalds 

 and lnu us. 15 Poppy flowers are to be used, and if not to be had, capsules are to be 

 taken instead of them. A ditty of four lines in rhyme says that this ointment for 

 burns and scalds is made with sesamum oil and Poppy flowers or capsules mixed with 

 water and boiled down; white wax and true calomel are added. When smeared 

 on the part a Heeled the pain at once subsides. There is also a remedy for ulcers 

 and tumours in which the capsules are used. It is a powder formed of olibanum 

 and huang-ch'i (Sophora tomentosa or, say some, Ptarmica Sibirica* a labiate 

 plant used as a tonic). A ditty of four lines, used as a recipe, says that olibanum 

 and huang-ch'i may be used for persons of a weak constitution who are afflicted with 

 painful tumours and ulcers ; such tumours if they have not grown to their full size will 

 be at once dispersed, and if they are already mature they will break. The roots of 

 tang-kuei (Aralia cdulis), shao-yao (Pceonia albijtora), ginseng, Sophora tomentosa, 

 cli'imn-hsiungj and Ti-huang (comfrey, i.e., Symphytum. WILLIAMS), together with 

 olihanuiii, myrrh, Poppy capsules, and liquorice, are used to make this powder, which 

 is also useful for bruises, sprains, wounds, and fractures. 



* WILLIAM'S Dictionary, JJ> P*B* 34& 



t Hfiuny (tj ) from Szechwan. Belongs to LcvitticwH. 



