<資料・研究ノート>東南アジアにおける生薬の比較研究(第IX報) : クチンの中葯(2)

Abstract

In the previous paper, about half the Chinese crude drugs collected at Kuching were described, together with the groups (A to F) into which they are cut for use. The remaining 232 drugs are described and discussed according to their origin as in the previous paper. The divisions are : flower (17), fruit (58), seed (37), herb (35), others (25), composed of cryptogamia and exudes or extracts of plants, animal (37) and mineral (23). Form was as follows : flowers, fruits, seeds and half of animal and others are generally undivided, while herbs are (C) as in the previous paper, some of animal and mineral origin are powder, and the remaining are indefinite. 80% of the drugs at Kuching are common to Singapore. The different drugs are : in Singapore various unidentified drugs from stem or trunk and root, and herbs, various flower drugs, and at Singapore there is more processed aconite root and the fruit or peel of various kinds of oranges. 85% and 74% of the drugs common to both Kuching and Singapore are described in "Yao-Cai-Xue" and "Gardens' Bulletin, Vol. 6" respectively. It seems that the drugs not described in "Yao-Cai-Xue" are folk medicines from South China, drugs which came from India in ancient times, and/or drugs easily collected in southeast Asia. And the drugs not described in "Gardens' Bulletin, Vol. 6" are various kinds of official Chinese crude drugs, and/or those produced in northern China.