botanical specimen
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact88681
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV017.7.53
- Description
- English Name: Long Pepper Fruit
- Chinese Pinyin Name: Bibo (Bibo)
- Physical Description: small medium-brown cylindrical fruit spikes of similar length and thickness, slight curve visible in some; small protuberances evenly distributed along pieces
- Production Regions: Primarily produced in Indonesia.
- Functions: Warms the center, disperses cold, downbears qi, relieves pain. Apply to cold pain of gastric cavity and abdomen, vomiting, diarrhea, nasosinusitis, hemicrania, externally used for toothache, coronary disease, angina pectoris; heart and abdominal cold pain, vomiting and sour regurgitation, diarrhea with intestine rumbling, cold diarrhea, yin hernia, headache, toothache.
- 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=B00156