Abstract: Dragon's blood is one of important traditional medicine which was used as early as A.D.400 in China.These still having not been used this medicinal product in home and which came from abroad ,according to literatures in historical CHinese Herbs,It came from African countries in ancient time and which was named as African Dragon's Blood.Commercially,another came from tropical eastsouth Asia in recent time and was named as Indonesean Dragon's Blood,Both have same effect in medicinal use,but their differential materials in character are quite distingnished.The resource of Indonesian Dragon's Blood is Daemonorops spp.belonging to Agacaceae and the resource of Indonesian Dragon's Blood if Daemonorops spp.The latter are belonging to Palmaceae.The ture chinese traditional Dragon's Blood is the former one.

Key words: Resource of CHinese

摘要： 血竭是中药的传统品种之一，其性味甘、温、咸、平，兼有活血、化瘀、止血、补血的功效，古代主要用于治疗跌打损伤、金枪等症，内科亦兼用之。此一药物在我国的记载可以追逆到南北朝宋人沈怀远撰的《南越志》（公元五世纪六十年代），该书称此药物为“骐麟竭”。（原书失传，公元779年唐人李绚的《海药本草》及公元1578年李时珍的《本草纲目》均有引述），后，唐人苏敬所著的《新修本草》（公元659年）中也有记述，因而血竭一药在我国的记载及应用至少有一千五百多年的历史。

关键词: 血竭属, 植物, 资源