botanical specimen
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact88698
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV017.7.70
- Description
- English Name: Tomentose Pummelo Peel Chinese Pinyin Name: Huajuhong (HuaJuHong / YouPi) Physical Description: large pieces of dried fruit peel, medium tan colour; intact peel is inside-out, has 4 points curving inwards; outer peel is finely pitted, inner peel is whitish with veins; 1 point broken off halfway, another near tip Production Regions: Primarily produced in the Chinese area of Huazhou and Lianjiang of Guangdong. Functions: Disperses cold, dries dampness, promotes qi, eliminates phlegm. Apply to cough due to wind-cold, itching throat with phlegm, dyspepsia and chronic alcoholism, vomiting, nausea, painful abdominal mass.
- 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=B00183 ; http://libproject.hkbu.edu.hk/was40/detail?channelid=1288&lang=en&record=1&searchword=herb_id=%27D00050%27%20OR%20herb_id=%27D00051%27 ; Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu), 2003;
- Marks/Labels
- See HV975.5.1165 for label that likely accompanied the pummelo peel.
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box
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact24057
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV975.5.549
- Description
- Box, green outside, pink inside; with lid, blue mottled design [part of the lid has become detached, but it is not numbered]
- Object History
- This item originates from the Chinese Herbalist Store "Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co.", Victoria B.C.
- Classification
- Container
- Marks/Labels
- White label with red lettering. English translation adjusted to Guangdong, Citrus reticulata Blanco. Guangdong (a province), is Huazhou (a city), Deshengtang (name of a shop), selected, correct or positive, typical, treasure, mountain, orange, red; medicine. This pill is made of many unidentified components. "White turbidity," refers to whitish and cloudy urine. "White turbidity" is a symptom of tiredness, deficiency in kidney qi, and alcohol abuse leading to spleen and stomach disorders. The pill is used to improved the kidneys and nourish the blood, as well as to treat back pain, weakness in the knees, the frequent need to urindate, rheumatism, bone pain, and neurasthenia.
- Measurements
- 25 cm in height x 3 cm in width
- Country Made
- China
- Province Made
- Guangdong
- Site/City Made
- Huazhou
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