卷柏 Butyeoson (부텨손)

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

1. 性溫平一云微寒, 味辛甘, 無毒.

   Its nature is warm and neutral, though one account calls it slightly cold; its taste is pungent and sweet, and it is non-toxic.

   HomiclubGwonbaek is bucheoson, a spikemoss. It is a perennial that bears neither flower nor seed and spreads by spores, living in clumps clinging to the surface of rock.

2. 主女子陰中寒熱痛, 血閉絶子. 治月經不通, 去百邪鬼魅, 鎭心.

   It chiefly treats cold, heat, and pain within a woman's genitals, and childlessness from blocked blood. It treats blocked menses, drives off the hundred evils and specters, and calms the heart.

3. 治邪啼泣, 療脫肛痿躄. 煖水藏. 生用破血, 灸用止血.

   It treats wailing from evil qi and treats prolapse of the rectum and inability to use the legs. It warms the water viscus. Used raw it breaks blood; used roasted it stops bleeding.

4. 生山中, 叢生石上. 苗似柏葉而細碎, 拳屈如雞足, 靑黃色, 無花子.

   It grows in the mountains, clustering on rock. Its shoots resemble arborvitae foliage but are finely divided, curled up like a clenched fist and shaped like a chicken's foot; they are green-yellow, and it has neither flower nor seed.

   HomiclubWhen bucheoson dries out its fronds curl inward into a fist-like ball, and when rain comes they open flat again. It is known for this cycle of drying and unfurling, and the text's "curled like a clenched fist" describes exactly that state.

5. 五月七月採, 陰乾. 去下近石有沙土處, 用之. 《本草》

   Gather it in the fifth and seventh months and dry it in the shade. Remove the lower part that touched the rock and carries sand and soil, and then use it. 《Boncho (本草)》