椰子 Coconut

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

1. 肉, 益氣治風. 其中有漿似酒, 飮之不醉.

   The flesh augments qi and treats wind. Within it there is a liquid like liquor, but drinking it does not intoxicate.

   HomiclubYaja is the coconut. The clear liquid inside is coconut water, the white flesh grated and pressed yields coconut milk, and the oil set from it is coconut oil.

2. 殼爲酒器, 酒有毒則沸起. 《食物》

   The shell is made into a liquor vessel; if the liquor holds poison, it seethes up. 《Singmul (食物)》

3. 生南海外, 極熱之地, 土人賴此, 解夏月煩渴. 《丹心》

   It grows beyond the southern sea in extremely hot lands, and the people there rely on it to relieve vexing thirst in the summer months. 《Dansim (丹心)》

   HomiclubThe coconut palm grows along tropical shores, and its fruit floats, which carried it to distant islands. It cannot survive outdoors in Korea, so only the nuts and their products arrive here.

4. 實大如瓠, 外有麄皮如棕包, 次有殼, 圓而且堅, 裏有膚, 至白如猪肪, 厚半寸許,

   The fruit is as big as a gourd; outside there is a coarse husk like palm fiber, then a shell, round and hard. Inside there is flesh, as white as pork fat and about half a chi thick.

5. 味亦似胡桃, 膚裏有漿四五合如乳, 飮之冷而氛醺. 卽椰木實也. 《本草》

   Its taste too resembles the walnut. Inside the flesh there are four or five hop of a milk-like liquid; drinking it is cooling and carries a fragrant, heady air. This is simply the fruit of the coconut palm. 《Boncho (本草)》