botanical specimen
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact88674
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV017.7.46
- Description
- English Name: Chinese Honeylocust Abnormal Fruit / Abnorma Chinese Honeylocust Fruit Chinese Pinyin Name: Zhuyazao (ZhuYaZao) Physical Description: dried fruit, large flat rectangular pieces torn from larger pods, dark brown with lighter brown areas; some pieces are curved along one side; leathery surfaces with creases and tears, and fraying along torn edges Production Regions: Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Shandong, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan. Functions: Opens orifices, transforms phlegm, dispels wind, kills worms. Apply to apoplexy and lockjaw, head wind, inveterate wind evil, throat impediment, panting with phlegm, distention and fullness accumulation, blocking orifices, swelling abscess, ulcer, tinea, head sore
- 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=B00225; Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu), 2003; Taiwan Herbal Pharmacopeia, 2014.