竹瀝 Daenamu Jin (대나무 진)

Original, read line by line 東醫寶鑑 · Tangaek — Decoctions vol. 3

1. 主暴中風, 胸中大熱. 止煩悶, 卒中風失音不語, 痰熱昏迷, 止消渴.

   It governs sudden jungpung (中風, wind stroke) and severe heat in the chest. It halts beonmin (煩悶, vexed oppression), sudden wind stroke with loss of voice and speech, and clouding of the mind from damyeol (痰熱, phlegm heat), and it quells sogal (消渴, wasting thirst).

   HomiclubJungnyeok is the sap collected as it seeps from the cut ends of bamboo sections heated over a fire. The old method, propping the bamboo at a slant with a vessel set beneath, is still used unchanged.

2. 治破傷風及産後發熱, 小兒驚癎, 一切危急之疾.

   It addresses pasangpung (破傷風, lockjaw), fever after childbirth, gyeonggan (驚癎, fright epilepsy) in children, and every kind of urgent illness.

3. 苦竹瀝, 療口瘡, 明目, 利九竅. 《本草》

   The jungnyeok of gojuk addresses mouth sores, brightens the eyes, and frees the nine orifices. 《Boncho (本草)》

4. 竹瀝非薑汁不能行經. 竹瀝六分, 加薑汁一分用. 《入門》

   Jungnyeok cannot travel the channels without ginger juice. Use six parts jungnyeok with one part ginger juice added. 《Immun (入門)》

   HomiclubThe pairing of bamboo sap with ginger juice recurs throughout the old medical literature, the ginger taken as a guide; here the source goes so far as to fix the proportion.

5. 取瀝法, 見雜方.

   The method for collecting the sap is found in the Japbang (雜方, miscellaneous methods) chapter.