薰草名实考

A Study on the Concept and Entity of Xuncao

目的:对"薰草"进行名实考证,明确本草"薰草"与植物的古今名物关系与认知,深入发掘香草药物的历史与应用,促进其在多种行业中发展。方法:以历代本草及相关文献为依据,从别名来源、产地、植物性状、各家观点、药用价值等多方面对薰草进行详细梳理和基源考证。结果:明确"薰草"与"零陵香"的融合关系,将其基源定于唇形科植物,反驳了将"薰草"定义为报春花科灵香草(Lysimachia foenum-graecum)或唇形科罗勒(Ocimum basilicum L.)的主流观点。结论:薰草是我国传承数千年的独特的香药文化代表之一,其文献记载发展背景极其复杂,交错着多种同类、不知名的香草药物,而香草药物在性状和药用价值等方面有其相通相似之处,在工业、农业、医药等方面均有巨大的发展潜力。

Objective:This article carries out the concept and entity study on"Xuncao",then clarifies the relationship and cognition of the ancient and modern plants,and deeply explores the history and application of vanilla drugs to promote their development in various industries.Methods:Through the textual research on the name of"XunCao",this article makes a detailed analysis on the source of aliases,origin,plant properties,various viewpoints,medicinal value,etc,to carry out a detailed combing of the Xuncao and the basic source of textual research.Results:The fusion relationship between"Xuncao"and"Linglingxiang"was clarified,and the basic source of Xuncao was determined to be Labiatae,refuting the mainstream view that"Xuncao"is defined as Lysimachia foenumgraecumor Ocimum basilicum L..Conclusion:Xuncao is one of the unique representatives of fragrant medicine culture in China for thousands of years.The background of its development is extremely complex,interleaving a variety of similar and unknown vanilla drugs.Vanilla drugs have similarities in properties and medicinal value,and have great development potential in the direction of industry,agriculture,medicine and so on.