桃花 Boksungakkot (복숭아꽃)

Original, read line by line 東醫寶鑑 · Tangaek — Decoctions vol. 2

1. 性平, 味苦, 無毒.

   Its nature is neutral, its taste bitter, and it is non-toxic.

   HomiclubThe peach blossom is a pale pink flower that opens before the leaves. In Korea it blooms in early April, and fruit sets where the five-petalled single flowers have fallen.

2. 破石淋, 利大小便, 下三蟲, 殺疰惡鬼, 令人好顔色.

   It breaks seongnim (石淋, stone strangury), frees the stool and urine, brings down the samchung (三蟲, three worms), kills ju (疰, infixation) and malign spirits, and gives a person a good complexion.

3. 桃花萼, 破積聚.

   The calyx of the peach blossom breaks up jeokchwi (積聚, accumulations and gatherings).

4. 桃花落時, 以竹簽收取, 陰乾, 和麪作燒餠, 空心服, 大下積聚陳久之物. 《醫說》

   When the peach blossoms fall, catch and gather them with a bamboo skewer, dry them in the shade, mix them with wheat flour to make a baked cake, and take it on an empty stomach; it strongly brings down long-standing accumulations. 《Uiseol (醫說)》

5. 三月三日, 採花陰乾, 勿用千葉花. 《本草》

   On the third day of the third month gather the flowers and dry them in the shade; do not use cheonyeophwa (千葉花, thousand-petal double blossom). 《Boncho (本草)》

   HomiclubThe third day of the third lunar month, Samjinnal, falls in early April. Cheonyeophwa refers to double-flowered peach, a form planted in gardens for its blossom, which the text sets aside.