[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 Jixueteng caused by the homonyms of different substances for Jixueteng is always very complicated. Fengqing Jixueteng Paste was first created in the Qing Dynasty. Fengqing Jixueteng was derived from the dried stems of a variety of species in Kadsura Juss. and Schisandra Michx. from Schisandracea; while Kunming Jixueteng, derived from the dried stem of Millettia dielsiana Harms 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 suberectus Dunn as the original plant of Jixueteng was in Guang xi ben cao xuan bian ( Selected Compilation of Chinese Materia Medica in Guangxi ). It was not until 1997 that Spatholobus suberectus Dunn was recorded as an origin of orthodox product of Jixueteng in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia . At present, the origins of Jixueteng is very complicated as recorded in different provincial standards, including three species of three genus from Leguminosae.The varieties of species from Kadsura Juss. and Schisandra Michx. had long been used as Fengqing Jixueteng, but currently the most extensively used one is Spatholobus suberectus Dunn as Jixueteng . There are more differences in records of Jixueteng in history up to the present, hence, further investigation and research on Jixueteng is still necessary.