Hu S L
Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing.
Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi. 1993 Apr;18(4):195-6, 239, 253.
An original error on Huzhang and Tiannanxing in Li Shizhen's "Bencao Gangmu" (Compendium of Materia Medica, 1596) is corrected in this paper. The conclusion is that Huzhang in "Shen Nong's Materia" (around 200) should be the tuber of Pinellia pedatisecta and Tiannanxing in "Kaibao Bencao" (974) the tuber of Arisaema heterophyllum but they were merged or confused by Li Shizhen. The former, in fact, has been cultivated, marketed, exported and used medically for its high quality, but it has disappeared from herbal literatures owing to Li's error. Therefore, the above-mentioned correction should be accepted in the next edition of Pharmacopoea of the people's Republic of China.
本文纠正了李时珍《本草纲目》（1596年）中虎掌与天南星的一处原错误。结论是，《神农本草经》（约公元200年）中的虎掌应为掌叶半夏的块茎，《开宝本草》（974年）中的天南星应为异叶天南星的块茎，但它们被李时珍合并或混淆了。前者实际上因其品质优良已被种植、销售、出口并用于医疗，但由于李氏的错误，它已从本草文献中消失。因此，上述纠正应在《中华人民共和国药典》下一版中采用。
