Huang-ch'i

alternative also Huangchi

1. alternativeobsoleteAlternative form of Huangqi.

   Lien-chiang (連江) grew trees on the barren hill slopes along nearly 100 li of the coasts of the Huang-ch'i (黃岐) peninsular.

   1965, Union Research Service, volume 39, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 89

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   Commune Members Chou Chin-shui, T'ang I-mao, and Li T'ai-ch'üan made a disclosure, saying: "Last year Li Chao-fang asked us to go to Huang-ch'i to undertake a construction project.

   1969, C.S. Chen, Rural People's Communes in Lien-chiang: Documents Concerning Communes in Lien-chiang County, Fukien Province, 1962-1963, Hoover Institution Press, →OCLC, page 156

alternative also Huangchi

1. uncountableA Chinese medicinal herb (Astragalus membranaceus)

   The Chinese drug Huang-ch’i is in considerable repute all over China.

   1906, “Huang-Ch’i”, in Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, number 1, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 382

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   Huang-ch'i is one of the famous drug frequently used in the Chinese medicine. In recent years, many substitutes and adulterants for this drug have been found in the market, and the botanic origin of the genuine drug Huang-ch'i still remains unclear both in herbals and in recent literatures.

   1964, Shiao Pei-Ken Feng Yu-Shou Cheng Ching-Yung Lou Tze-Ching, “BOTANICAL AND PHARMACOGNOSTICAL STUDIES OF THE CHENESE DRUG HUANG-CH'I——Ⅰ. IDENTIFICATION OF THE BOTANICAL ORIGINS AND REVIEW OF THE ANCIENT HERBALS”, in Acta Pharmaceutica

   Astragalus membranaceus (aka Huang ch'i) has been used widely for thousands of years throughout the Orient to stimulate the immune system.

   1997 October, Nancy Spaulding-Albright, “A review of some herbal and related products commonly used in cancer patients”, in Journal of the American Dietetic Association, volume 97, number 10

   He wrote: “From distant Tibet they bring saffron and sal ammoniac; orange peel and litchis from Canton; mushrooms and huang ch'i from Mongolia; rhubarb from Szechuan, etc."

   2012, Tao Feiya, “The Evolution of European Missionaries' Views on Chinese Medicine”, in Chinese Studies in History, volume 46, number 2