Plant Diversity ›› 1979, Vol. 1 ›› Issue (02): 1-3.

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A STUDY ON THE RESOURCE OF CHINESE DRAGONS BLOOD

Tsai Hsi-tao Xu Zhai-fu   

  1. Kunmming Institute of Botany,Academia sinica
  • Online:1979-04-25 Published:1979-04-25

Abstract: Dragon's blood is one of important traditional medicine which was used as early as A.D.400 in China.These still having not been used this medicinal product in home and which came from abroad ,according to literatures in historical CHinese Herbs,It came from African countries in ancient time and which was named as African Dragon's Blood.Commercially,another came from tropical eastsouth Asia in recent time and was named as Indonesean Dragon's Blood,Both have same effect in medicinal use,but their differential materials in character are quite distingnished.The resource of Indonesian Dragon's Blood is Daemonorops spp.belonging to Agacaceae and the resource of Indonesian Dragon's Blood if Daemonorops spp.The latter are belonging to Palmaceae.The ture chinese traditional Dragon's Blood is the former one.

Key words: Resource of CHinese