槐實 Hoehwanamu Yeolmae (회화나무 열매)

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

1. 性寒, 味苦酸醎, 無毒. 主五痔火瘡.

   Its nature is cold, its taste bitter, sour, and salty, and it is non-toxic. It governs the ochi (五痔, five kinds of haemorrhoid) and burns.

   HomiclubGoesil is the pod fruit of the Chinese scholar tree. As a legume, the tree bears its seeds in a pod constricted between them like a string of beads.

2. 除大熱, 療難産墮胎, 殺蟲去風.

   It removes great heat, treats difficult birth and miscarriage, kills worms, and expels wind.

3. 治男女陰瘡濕痒, 及腸風, 能催生.

   It treats sores and damp itching of the genitals in men and women, and jangpung (腸風, intestinal wind bleeding), and it can hasten delivery.

4. 十月上巳日採實和莢, 新盆盛, 以牛膽汁拌濕, 封口塗泥, 經百日取出, 皮爛爲水, 子如大豆紫黑色.

   On the first sa day of the tenth month gather the fruit with its pods, put them in a new earthen vessel, mix them moist with ox bile, seal the mouth and coat it with clay, and take them out after a hundred days: the husk has rotted to liquid and the seeds are the size of soybeans and purplish black.

5. 能疏導風熱. 入藥微炒.

   It can disperse and guide out wind heat. When put into medicine it is lightly parched.

6. 有服法, 久服則令腦滿, 髮不白而長生. 一名槐角, 卽莢也. 《本草》

   There is a method of taking it: taken long, it is said to fill the brain, keep the hair from whitening, and prolong life. It is also called goegak (槐角), that is, the pod. 《Boncho (本草)》

   HomiclubGoegak names the fruit taken with its pod, and herb shops still sell it under that name. The scholar tree was planted at village entrances and in academy courtyards, and today it is a common street tree.

7. 槐者, 虛星之精, 葉晝合夜開, 故一名守宮. 《入門》

   The scholar tree is the essence of the star Heo (虛星); its leaves close by day and open by night, and so it is also called sugung (守宮). 《Ipmun (入門)》