botanical specimen
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact88671
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV017.7.43
- Description
- English Name: Pharbitis Seed / Lobedleaf Pharbitis Seed Chinese Pinyin Name: Qianniuzi (QianNiuZi) Physical Description: many small dried seeds, colours vary from light tan to dark brown; wedge-shaped with curved backs, like orange segments; backs have single groove Production Regions: Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Guangxi, Yunnan. Functions: Drains water, frees stools, eliminates phlegm, clears fluid, kills worms, attacks stagnation. Apply to edema and fullness, fecal and urinary stoppage, inverse qi and panting, worm stagnation and abdominal pain, ascariasis, taeniasis.
- 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=B00198 Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu), 2003; Taiwan Herbal Pharmacopeia, 2014.
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