| 英文摘要 |
It has been a long time that the guei has been documented; however, the name and the administration of guei still differed from bencao to bencao. These writings of Chinese medical doctors or official archives couldn’t even give a precisely answer to define “guan-guei.” The purpose of this research is to clearly identify the meaning of guan-guei, by searching through many editions of bencao in the history and the writings of Chinese medical doctors, and examined with the historical and geographical interpretation of herbs. From the research result it shows that guan-guei, jiun-guei and tung-guei are the same. The shape of the medicinal is rolling type. Guan-guei may be considered as one of the best kind of guei in all its families. However, based on the phonosemantics, guan stands for tube-like shape. The grades of guan-guei are specified by their rolling shapes, no matter their big or tiny branches. Guan-guei is assumed boneless, rounded like bamboo tube but with rolling shape, of which the better form is recognized from one or two rolling layers on tiny branches to even three folds of thick and tender layers on big branches. Therefore, to understand the documentation and the quotation of guan-guei will be advantageous to modern clinical, research and pharmacological developments, and even to the modernization of Chinese medicine. |
