連翹 Gaenari Yeolmae (개나리 열매)

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

1. 性平, 味苦, 無毒.

   Its nature is neutral, its taste bitter, and it has no toxicity.

2. 主瘰癧, 癰腫, 惡瘡, 癭瘤, 結熱, 蠱毒.

   It chiefly governs narok (scrofula), abscess swellings, malignant sores, yeongnyu (goitres and lumps), bound heat, and godok (gu poisoning).

3. 排膿, 治瘡癤, 止痛.

   It expels pus, treats sores and boils, and stops pain.

4. 療五淋, 小便不通, 除心家客熱.

   It cures the orim (five stranguries) and blocked urination, and removes invading heat lodged in the heart.

5. 葉似水蘇, 莖赤色, 高三四尺, 花黃可愛.

   Its leaves resemble suso (water mint), its stem is red, it stands three or four ja (feet) tall, and its flowers are yellow and lovely.

   HomiclubThis is the gaenari, the forsythia whose flowers open before the leaves in spring. Its long arching branches are often planted along walls as a hedge.

6. 秋結實作房, 剖之中解, 纔乾便落, 不着莖.

   In autumn it sets fruit forming a capsule; split open, it parts down the middle, and as soon as it dries it falls, not clinging to the stem.

7. 在處有之, 但樹老乃有子, 故難得.

   It grows everywhere, but only an old tree bears seed, so the fruit is hard to obtain.

8. 其實片片相比如翹, 故以爲名. 《本草》

   Its fruit, with its segments set side by side like a gyo (翹, a bird's long tail feather), is the reason for the name. 《Boncho (Materia Medica)》

   Homiclub翹 denotes the long tail feather of a bird. The name likens the dried fruit, split into two halves, to that feather.

9. 手足少陽ㆍ陽明經藥也.

   It is a medicine for the hand and foot soyang and yangmyeong channels.

10. 入手少陰經.

    It enters the hand soeum channel.

11. 去瓤用之.

    The pith is removed before it is used.

12. 瘡瘻癰腫, 不可缺也. 《入門》

    For fistulous sores and abscess swellings it cannot be dispensed with. 《Immun (Introduction to Medicine)》