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Arborvitae Leaf Tea

Baegyeop-cha

한글 백엽차 · Pinyin Bai Ye Cha

柏葉茶

The source gives no weight; the figure here is nominal.

Composition 構成

Cheukbaegyeop Ce Bai Ye
側柏葉 측백엽 · Arborvitae Leaf

40 g
Chief 君

東向柏葉, leaves from the east-facing side, steamed over rice, rinsed and shade-dried

Total 40 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Drives off the hundred diseases and extends the years
Taken daily as a tea

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Taken over a long time for longevity

Biomedical correlates

Traditional longevity tea
Recorded as a historical preparation

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

柏葉茶, 取東向柏葉, 置甑中飯上蒸之, 以水淋數過, 陰乾, 每日煎服. 《入門》

Translation

Arborvitae leaf tea: take leaves from the east-facing side, set them over the rice in a steamer and steam them, rinse them several times with water, dry them in the shade, and decoct and take daily. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Sinhyeong)

Clinical commentary 臨床

東向柏葉, leaves from the east-facing side of the tree — the side that catches the morning sun, and the kind of collecting instruction that marks a drug which was genuinely gathered rather than bought. The simple beside it promises ten years of life for each year of taking, at eighty-one pills a dose; the tea is the usable form, and arborvitae leaf is still taken as a tea in Korea. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.