葉汁 Yeopjeup (엽즙)

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

1. 殺百藥毒, 解狼毒ㆍ射罔毒ㆍ毒藥ㆍ毒箭ㆍ金石藥毒.

   It kills the toxins of the hundred medicines and resolves the toxins of nangdok (狼毒), samang (射罔, aconite arrow poison), poisons, poisoned arrows, and mineral medicines.

   HomiclubYeopjeup is the juice pressed from the fresh stems and leaves of jok, the dyer's knotweed. Where the preceding entry, namsil, dealt with the seed, this one takes up the green parts of the same plant.

2. 治天行熱狂, 遊風, 熱毒, 腫毒, 鼻洪, 吐血, 金瘡, 血悶.

   It treats epidemic heat mania, roaming wind, heat toxin, swelling toxin, heavy nosebleed, vomiting of blood, wounds from metal blades, and blood oppression.

3. 除煩止渴, 療蟲蛇傷, 毒刺, 婦人産後血暈, 小兒壯熱熱疳.

   It removes vexation and stops thirst, and treats bites from insects and snakes, wounds from venomous thorns, postpartum blood dizziness in women, and high fever with heat gan (疳) disorder in children.

4. 此卽生藍莖葉, 可以染靑者. 《本草》

   This is the stem and leaf of fresh jok — the part that can dye things blue. 《Boncho (本草)》

   HomiclubThe single phrase "the part that can dye things blue" fixes the plant's identity. A colorless precursor in jok leaves turns indigo on contact with water and air — which is precisely the process still carried out in jok-dyeing workshops.

5. 能散敗血, 分歸經絡. 《丹心》

   It can scatter spoiled blood and divides to home into the channels and network vessels. 《Dansim (丹心)》