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https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact23830
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV975.5.184
- Description
- Container, wood, painted dark brown, circular, with lid; orange label with painted chinese characters.
- Object History
- This item originates from the Chinese Herbalist Store "Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co.", Victoria B.C.
- Classification
- Chemical T&E
- Marks/Labels
- Word for word translation is as follows; "top"; "to roll up"; "Pachyma cocos / china root"; "sky"; "to born"; "method". This has been adjusted for english comprehension to "Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae". "Wild Atractylodes grow in the Tianmu Mountain area, which is the same as Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae. The wild Atractylodes is already extinct. Taste sweet, bitter, warm. Tonifying spleen and eliminating dampness, nourish qi, generate blood, remove stomach fluid and dampness, induce diuresis, stop sweat."
- Measurements
- 14 cm height x 30 cm diameter