䈽竹葉 왕댓닙 Wangdaesip (왕댓잎)

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 and its taste sweet, though one account calls it bitter; it is non-toxic. It stops coughing with counterflow qi, clears vexing heat, stops sogal (消渴, wasting thirst), and presses down the toxin of danseok (丹石, mineral elixirs).

   HomiclubWangdaetip is the leaf of the wangdae, the giant timber bamboo of the grass family. It is the stoutest bamboo grown in Korea, forming the bamboo groves of Damyang and the southern provinces, and its long willow-shaped leaves hang a few together at the tips of the branches.

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 obstruction), and vomiting. It chiefly governs the spitting of blood, yeoldokpung (熱毒風, heat toxin wind), and malign sores, 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.

   There are three kinds of bamboo: bunjuk, damjuk, and gojuk. The bunjuk is round in body and stiff in grain; the thick ones suit poling a boat and the slender ones can be made into flutes.

   HomiclubThe old bunjuk is taken to mean the wangdae, damjuk the somdae, and gojuk the black bamboo or its kin. A ring of white bloom below each node marks the wangdae, while a new culm dusted cotton-white marks the somdae.

4. 甘竹似篁而茂, 卽淡竹也. 苦竹有白有紫. 《本草》

   The gamjuk resembles the hwang bamboo but is more luxuriant, and it is the damjuk. Among gojuk there are white ones and purple ones. 《Boncho (本草)》

5. 䈽竹ㆍ淡竹爲上, 苦竹次之. 《入門》

   The bunjuk and the damjuk are held highest, and the gojuk comes next. 《Immun (入門)》