botanical specimen
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact88693
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV017.7.65
- Description
- English Name: Hypoglaucous Collett Yam Rhizome/ Hypoglaucous Yam Rhizome Chinese Pinyin Name: Fenpixie (FenPiXie) Physical Description: thin slices of rhizome, large, medium tan colour, irregular edges and shapes; surface is slightly rough; colour is darker and texture rougher or wrinkled near some edges; some pieces have cracks or tears in edges Functions: Promotes urination, dispels wind, promotes removing damp. Apply to wind and damp impediment, pain of waist and knees, dysuria, stranguria with turbid discharge, spermatorrhea, sore toxin due to damp and heat
- 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=B00056 Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu), 2003; Taiwan Herbal Pharmacopeia, 2014.