botanical specimen
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact88660
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV017.7.32
- Description
- English Name: Villous Amomun Fruit Chinese Pinyin Name: Sharen (ShaRen / SuoShaMiRen) Physical Description: many small dried fruits, flattened ovals, ranging from pale tan to darker reddish brown colour; some have longitudinal ridges, others appear wrinkled, with stem protrusion one end or hole; at least one is broken open Production Regions: Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi. Imported sha ren is produced in Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Functions: Transforms dampness, increases appetite, warms spleen, relieves diarrhea, regulates qi, calms fetus. Apply to retention of dampness in the middle, abdominal fullness and anorexia, deficiency and cold spleen and stomach, vomit and diarrhea, pernicious vomiting, restless fetal movements.
- Object History
- Collection of original raw contents of the Chinese Herbalist Shop, Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee, Victoria BC, as purchased from Rodney Pain in 1974.
- Reference
- Chinese Medicinal Material Images Database, School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University. URL: http://libproject.hkbu.edu.hk/was40/detail?channelid=47953&lang=eng&searchword=pid=B00254 ; Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu), 2003;