Root - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 52042 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 91.01 CAMPANULACEAE Codonopsis tangshen | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Root | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Root | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | RootUse: MEDICINES User: Not defined | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 25 D 1 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | Smith PF No: 1251x0Dx0A | |||
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| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: Also two vials, 1. 89, Platycodon grandiflorum, FP Smith Convolvulus = Gentiana and 2. 1251, Tang Shen, Tang Sang, Thibet drugs Opuscular source: This is a Chinese plant belonging to Campanulaceae with twisting stem and greenish flowers,, bearing an external resemblance to those of Coboea scandens but much smaller. It has been recently cultivated, with other rare Chinese plants by Messrs Veitch & Son, and is the source of one of the varieties of the Chinese drug known as Tang Shen. In the, Museum collection of Chinese drugs there are two kinds of Tang Shen, and a specimen of the Nutang root. According to Dr A Henry there is no question of C.tangshen yielding large quantites of Tangshen. In the note in Icones Plantarum reference is made to d, ifferent kinds of the drug as follows: Tangshen is a very important Chinese drug, which is used by the poor as a substitute for the costly ginseng. The name signifies Ginseng from the district of Shang Tang in Shansi, but the drug is now produced in diffe, rent provinces of Hupeh, Szechuan, Shensi and Shangsi. Ichang and Hankow are the other ports from which the drug is exported to the amount of 500 tons annually, the province of exportation being Hupah, Szechuan and Shengsi. In the Tang district of Hupah l, arge quantities of the wild growing plant are dug up everywhere in the mountains. C.tangshen is the principal source of the drug. The root of C.lanceolata is also said to be collected, but it is much inferior in quality having a disagreeable odour and com, manding a very low price, and it bears a different name. Another kind in the market is known as Lutang ie Tangshen from the Luan prefecture of Shangsi. This is perhaps the root of Campanumoea pilosula, from which Pere David collected near Pekin. This plan, t is given as the source of the drug from Tientsin by Anton in his alphabetical list of Chinese drugs Nos 853 and 1251. Another varitey of the drug known as Ming tan, is produced in the province of Anhwei, of which the annual export of Wuhu amounts to 60, tons annually. The plant yielding Ming tan has not yet been identified but Dr A Henry thinks it will prove to be an adenophora. In the Chi-wuming, according to Dr A Henry, a picture is given of what is called local Tangshen as distinguished from the offic, ial drug, and the picture in Folio 23 sheet 54, looks like Camponumoea javanica Bl. | ||||