Ming herbal (painting): Chinese pulsatilla [root]

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Lettering: Chinese pulsatilla [root], tried and tested in Yunnan. Like baiwei ?? (Radix Cynanchi Baiwei), but more delicate and slender and slightly longer. The [Divine Farmer's] Canon of Materia Medica (Benjing) calls it 'ye zhangren' (Old Man of the Wilds. It is bitter in sapor, and non-poisonous. It is indicated for warm ague (wen nüe), mania (kuangzheng), chills and fever (hanre), abdominal masses (zhengjia), accumulations, and Qi goiter; for healing metal-inflicted wounds and nosebleeds; for stopping poison dysentery and bloody dysentery; for abdominal pain, toothache and pains in all the joints, all kinds of wind Qi and malign heat; for warming the small of the back and the knees...