Arum, Cockoo-pint, Tian Nan Xing 天南星 Aron, Wake Robin, Serpentaria Minorus, Dracontia MinorisDa Ba  ད་བ  (Tibetan Medicine)Chinese Arum (Arisaema):–Tian Nan Xing, Hu Zhang–Zhi Tian Nan Xing (prepared)–Dan Nan Xing (Bile-prepared) Herbarius latinus, Petri, 1485 Ortus sanitatis, Cube, Johann von, 1501 Arum maculatumHerbarum vivae eicones, 1532 Arum maculatumIcones Plantarum Medcio-oeconomico, Vietz, 1800 Arum maculatumHortus Medicus, Graves, 1834 Arum dracunculus (syn. Dracunulcus vulgaris) (L. Fuchs, New Kreüterbuch (1543) Arum dracunculus (syn. Dracunulcus vulgaris)Basilius Bessler, Hortus Eystettensis, vol. 2: Quartus ordo collectarum plantarum aestivalium, (1620) Arum dioscoridesJ. Sibthrop, Flora Graeca (1840) Arum palestinumCurtis’s Botanical Magazine, (1865) Arum tortuosumCurtis’s Botanical Magazine (1865) Left: Arum; Middle: Arisarum. Right: alternate ArisarumKrauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578 Left: Lesser Arum (Herbario nuovo, 1667);Center & Right: Other species of Arum (Parkinson, Theatrum Botanicum, 1640) The Chinese Arums (Ariseama): The 2 following species are found in Western China, and are examples of the typical species used in TCM. They are similar in their type and flower, only having a number of leaves per stem, or else deeply divided leaves as opposed to the Western Arum that tends to have one large leaf. Arisaema erubescens (as Arum erubescens)Wallich, N., Plantae Asiaticae Rariores, vol. 2 (1831)Arisaema flavum (Arum flavum)Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, vol. 126 (1900) Prepared…

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