botanical specimen
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact88683
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV017.7.55
- Description
- English Name: Lobed Kudzuvine Root Chinese Pinyin Name: Gegen (GeGen) Physical Description: roots, dried, flat, rough dark brown surfaces with longitudinal wrinkles; mostly rectangular but tapered in places Production Regions: Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Henan, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Hunan. Functions: Resolves exterior, abates heat, engenders fluid, outthrusts measles, raise yang, relieves diarrhea. Apply to fever and headache caused by exogenous pathogens, stiffness of the neck due to hypertension, hydrodipsia, diabetes, measles without adequate eruptions, dysentery of heat type, diarrhea.
- 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=B00063 Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu), 2003; Taiwan Herbal Pharmacopeia, 2014.