Excerpt from Botanicon Sinicum, Vol. 3: Notes on Chinese Botany From Native and Western Sources The Pie In is an enlargement of the Herbal of seen N ung. We meet in it with notices of all the plants mentioned in the earlier work to which an account of the drugs used in the Han and Wei periods is added. These accounts are very short, giving only in a few cases descriptive details of the respective drugs (plants). But the provinces or districts where the drug in question is produced are generally indicated. Nearly all these ...
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Excerpt from Botanicon Sinicum, Vol. 3: Notes on Chinese Botany From Native and Western Sources The Pie In is an enlargement of the Herbal of seen N ung. We meet in it with notices of all the plants mentioned in the earlier work to which an account of the drugs used in the Han and Wei periods is added. These accounts are very short, giving only in a few cases descriptive details of the respective drugs (plants). But the provinces or districts where the drug in question is produced are generally indicated. Nearly all these geographical names refer to the Ts'in [3rd cent. B.c.] or Han periods, although some of them can be traced to the Chou dynasty [b.c. 1122 In a few cases they cannot be ascertained. The part of the plant which is used in medicine and the time of gathering it are also noticed. The Pie lu uses generally four phrases to distinguish the localities in which the plants grow, viz. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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