"肿节风"更名为"草珊瑚"商榷

通过肿节风植物基源、源流考释,为更名草珊瑚提供依据。考查古今有关文献,分析以“草珊瑚”作为本草正名的依据。现代有关中药著作中“肿节风”既未遵照古代本草命名原则,也未依据植物分类命名,以“肿节风”命名欠妥。根据植物分类命名原则,依据《中国中医药主题词表》,并结合临床及生活实际需要、中医药文化发展及时代需求,应将其更名为“草珊瑚”更为妥当。“草珊瑚”应替代“肿节风”作为本草正名。

Discussion on Renaming "Zhongjiefeng" to "Sarcandrae"

After the study of the source and the development of plant Zhongjiefeng,we prove that "Zhongjiefeng"should be renamed to "Sarcandrae".We examined the relative literature and analyzed that Sarcandrae is the corrective materia medica name.In modern Chinese medicinal literature,"Zhongjiefeng" is named neither by ancient principle of materia medica nor the classification of plant,so it is improper.According to the principle of plant name classification and "China TCM thesaurus","Sarcandrae" should be the corrective materia medica name instead of"zhongjiefeng"to meet the requirement of clinical and periods considering of the developing culture of TCM.