清宫御用外来药物考

A Textual Research of the Foreign Medicine Used in the Imperial Palaces of the Qing Dynasty

本文对《医史杂志》所载《元大都回回药物院的遗物》中列出的药名,逐一推敲,可以断定,其中仅有少数是元代的遗物,而其大多数,应是明代万历元年以降出现的从墨西哥到马尼拉之间的跨太平洋的大帆船贸易转输来的美洲新大陆的物产及药品。这些紫禁城内武英殿露房的遗物实是元、明、清三朝皇室御医使用的药物及配药之料。

After studying with deliberation of the so-called 'Things left behind in the Hui medicine hospital of Yuan-Da-Du',it can be concluded that most of the remains should be products and medicines from The New World which first had been shipped from Mexico to Manila,and then to China after the first year of Wanli reign of Ming Dynasty, except very few was left behind from Yuan Dynasty. Therefore,these remains from the Lu-Fang room of Wu-Ying-Dian Hall in the Forbidden City are in fact medicines and medicinal materials for Yuan,Ming and Qing three dynasties' imperial physician use.