䈽竹葉 Wangdaennip (왕댓닙)

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

1. 性寒, 味甘一云苦, 無毒. 止咳逆上氣, 除煩熱, 止消渴, 壓丹石毒.

   Its nature is cold, its taste sweet - though one account calls it bitter - and it is non-toxic. It halts cough and rising qi, removes beonyeol (煩熱, vexing heat), quells sogal (消渴, wasting thirst), and suppresses the toxin of danseok (丹石, mineral elixirs).

   HomiclubGeunjugyeop is the leaf of the giant timber bamboo. It is among the thickest-growing bamboos in Korea and the species that forms the bamboo groves of the southern provinces.

2. 療風痙, 喉痺, 嘔吐. 主吐血, 熱毒風, 惡瘍, 殺小蟲.

   It addresses punggyeong (風痙, wind spasm), hubi (喉痺, throat blockage), and vomiting. It governs the vomiting of blood, yeoldokpung (熱毒風, heat-toxin wind), and akyang (惡瘍, malignant ulcer), and kills small worms.

3. 竹有䈽淡苦三種. 䈽竹體圓而質勁, 大者宜刺船, 細者可爲笛.

   Bamboo comes in three kinds: geunjuk (䈽竹), damjuk (淡竹), and gojuk (苦竹). Geunjuk has a round body and stiff grain; the thick stems suit poling a boat and the slender ones can be made into flutes.

   HomiclubHere the text sorts bamboo by thickness and grain into poles and flutes. Korean wind instruments such as the daegeum and danso are still made of bamboo, the stock chosen by thickness and by the spacing of the nodes.

4. 甘竹似篁而茂, 卽淡竹也. 苦竹有白有紫. 《本草》

   Gamjuk (甘竹) resembles hwang (篁, a stand of bamboo) but grows more luxuriantly; it is precisely damjuk. Gojuk comes in a white form and a purple form. 《Boncho (本草)》

5. 䈽竹ㆍ淡竹爲上, 苦竹次之. 《入門》

   Geunjuk and damjuk are taken as the superior kinds, with gojuk next. 《Immun (入門)》