[Studies on the medicinal plant in the "Sambutsu-cho" of Bungo Province possessed by the Kumamoto Clan (II); studies on the medicinal herbs].

In the previous report, I studied the medicinal trees contained in the Sambutsu-cho of the Kumamoto clan in Bungo Province. In this report, I studied the medicinal herbs contained in the same book. There were 259 names in the herbal part. I identified 156 species and found 103 species as the medicinal plants. The ratio of the medicinal plants was 66%. The famous medicinal plants were as follows: Atractilodes japonica, Platycodon gradiflorum, Mentha arvensis var. piperascens, Lisospermum erythrorizon, Pharbitis nil, Gentiana scabra var. buergeri, Cnidium officianal, Angelica acutiloba, Bupleurum falcatum, Pueraria lobata, Paeonia lactiflora, Paeonia suffruticosa, Achyranthes fauriei, Asarum dimidiatum, Ophiopogon japonica, Pinellia ternata and Cyperus rotundus.