桃梟 Peach Kernel

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

1. 性微溫, 味苦. 主殺百鬼精物五毒不祥.

   Its nature is slightly warm and its taste bitter. It chiefly kills the hundred ghosts and spirit-things, the five poisons, and inauspicious things.

   HomiclubDohyo is a peach that dried on the branch and stayed there through the winter. Orchardists today call such shrivelled fruit left hanging a mummy, and remove it the following spring.

2. 療中惡心腹痛, 破血. 又治中惡毒氣蠱疰.

   It heals pain of the chest and abdomen from jungak (中惡, malignity strike) and breaks blood. It also treats the toxic qi of jungak and goju (蠱疰, gu infixation).

3. 一名桃奴. 是桃實已乾, 着木上, 經冬不落者. 名桃梟.

   It is also called dono (桃奴). This is a peach fruit already dried, clinging to the tree, that does not fall through the winter. This is named dohyo (桃梟).

4. 正月採之, 以中實者爲良. 一云, 十二月採.

   Gather it in the first month, taking those solid within as good. One account says to gather it in the twelfth month.

5. 一名鬼髑髏, 是千葉桃花結子, 在樹上不落乾者, 於十二月採得, 可爲神妙. 《本草》

   It is also called gwichokru (鬼髑髏, ghost skull). This is the fruit set by the thousand-petal peach blossom, which stays on the tree without falling and dries; gathered in the twelfth month it may be called marvelous. 《Boncho (本草)》

   HomiclubGwichokru means ghost's skull, a name drawn from the sight of blackened, shrivelled fruit left hanging on bare winter branches.

6. 酒拌蒸, 以銅刀刮, 取肉, 焙乾用. 《入門》

   Mix it with liquor and steam it, scrape it with a copper knife, take the flesh, and dry it over a fire for use. 《Immun (入門)》