白薇以“白薇”为名的商品,在中药店中比较复杂,都是萝藦科植物。值得注意的是:“白薇”与“白前”在不同的地方往往互易其名。目前情况,上海药店生药以根形似龙胆的为“白薇”,有称“龙胆白薇”或“东白薇”,以根和根茎入药。另其茎中空如鹅管状的为“白前”,称为“鹅管白前”,入药以地上茎为主。济南、天津、北京、哈尔滨等地的“白薇”亦与上海品为同型。于江苏、南京、镇江、无锡、常熟、盐 Bai Wei’s products with the name “Baiwei” are more complicated in Chinese medicine shops and are all plants of the family Diospyaceae. It is worth noting that “Baiwei” and “White” are often different from each other in different places. At present, the Shanghai pharmacy raw medicine is rooted in the shape of gentian as “Baiwei”, there are “Ganxi Baiwei” or “Dongbaiwei”, with root and rhizome medicine. Another stem hollow as a goose-like tube for the “white before”, known as “goose tube before the white”, the main stem into the medicine. “Baiwei” in Jinan, Tianjin, Beijing, Harbin and other places are also of the same type as Shanghai. In Jiangsu, Nanjing, Zhenjiang, Wuxi, Changshu, Salt