Medicine

29-237-68

From: China | Jiangsu

Curatorial Section: Asian

Object Number 29-237-68
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Chinese
Provenience China | Jiangsu
Date Made 19th Century
Section Asian
Description

葶藶子. Knot grass seed. A stomachic, taken also for epileptic, bronchial, asthmatic and urinary affections. From Jiangsu province. Value at Zhenjiang, $6.80. Brown/red dust. 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 3999 - Other Number | CG98-1-72.71 - Found in Collection Number

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