Medicine
29-237-115
From: China | Sichuan
Curatorial Section: Asian
| Object Number | 29-237-115 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Chinese |
| Provenience | China | Sichuan |
| Date Made | 19th Century |
| Section | Asian |
| Description | 防風. Libanotis. The root is sold in long brownish-yellow irregular pieces. It has a sweetish and aromatic taste. Prescibed in catarrh, rheumatism, leprosy,etc. From Sichuan province. Value at Ningpo, $14 per picul. Small gray pieces, seed-like. One of a collection of samples of Chinese medicine, each in an individual glass jar sealed with cork top. |
| Credit Line | Gift of R. Stewart Culin, pre-1903 |
| Other Number | 4174 - Other Number | CG98-1-72.119 - Found in Collection Number |
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