牡丹 Moranppurikkeopjil (모란뿌리껍질)

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

1. 性微寒, 味辛苦, 無毒. 除癥堅瘀血.

   Its nature is slightly cold, its taste pungent and bitter, and it is non-toxic. It removes hardened jing masses and eohyeol (static blood).

2. 治女子經脉不通, 血瀝腰痛, 落胎, 下胞衣.

   It treats blocked menstruation in women and lower-back pain with dripping blood, brings down the fetus, and discharges the placenta.

3. 産後一切血氣, 療癰瘡, 排膿, 消撲損瘀血.

   It is used for every postpartum blood-and-qi disorder, treats ongchang (abscesses and sores), expels pus, and disperses static blood from blows and injuries.

4. 卽牡丹花根也. 生山中, 單葉者佳. 二月八月採根, 銅刀劈去骨, 陰乾. 《本草》

   This is the root of the peony flower. It grows in the mountains, and the single-flowered kind is best. In the second and eighth months the root is dug, split with a copper knife to remove the core, and dried in the shade. 《Boncho》

   HomiclubGol (骨) is the hard woody core running through the middle of the root. What is left after it is removed is the bark used as the drug, mokdanpi. Single-flowered plants are specified to separate them from the double-flowered ornamental cultivars.

5. 入足少陰ㆍ手厥陰, 治無汗之骨蒸, 能瀉陰中之火.

   It enters the foot soeum and hand gwoleum channels, treats goljeung (steaming bone fever) without sweating, and can drain fire within the eum.

6. 酒拌蒸用, 白者補, 赤者利. 《入門》

   Mix it with wine, steam it, and use it; the white kind supplements and the red kind frees the passages. 《Ipmun》