[Textual research on Fengqing Jixueteng (Kadsura interior A. C. Smith), Kunming Jixueteng (Millettia dielsiana Harms ex Diels) and Jixueteng (Spatholobus suberectus Dunn)].

Being a common materia medica, the confusion of Jixuetengcaused by the homonyms of different substances for Jixuetengis always very complicated. Fengqing JixuetengPaste was first created in the Qing Dynasty. Fengqing Jixuetengwas derived from the dried stems of a variety of species in KadsuraJuss. and SchisandraMichx. from Schisandracea; while Kunming Jixueteng, derived from the dried stem of Millettia dielsianaHarms ex Diels, was firstly recorded in the Zhi wu ming shi tu kao(Textual Research on Reality and Titles of Plants). The earliest records of Spatholobus suberectusDunn as the original plant of Jixuetengwas in Guang xi ben cao xuan bian(Selected Compilation of Chinese Materia Medica in Guangxi). It was not until 1997 that Spatholobus suberectusDunn was recorded as an origin of orthodox product of Jixuetengin the Chinese Pharmacopoeia. At present, the origins of Jixuetengis very complicated as recorded in different provincial standards, including three species of three genus from Leguminosae.The varieties of species from KadsuraJuss. and SchisandraMichx. had long been used as Fengqing Jixueteng, but currently the most extensively used one is Spatholobus suberectusDunn as Jixueteng. There are more differences in records of Jixuetengin history up to the present, hence, further investigation and research on Jixuetengis still necessary.