Formulas · Tonify Yin 補陰 · Junggyeong (仲景)
Lily Bulb and Talc Powder
Baekhaphwalseok-san
한글 백합활석산 · Pinyin Bai He Hua Shi San
百合滑石散
Composition 構成
Total 160 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.
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Actions 效能
- Moistens the lung and drains heat through the urine
- Resolves lily disease that has turned to chill and fever
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Lily disease changed into alternating chill and fever
- Residual heat seeking an exit with the yin already depleted
Biomedical correlates
- Relapsing convalescent fever
- Low-grade intermittent fever after infection
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治百合病變寒熱者. 百合 一兩, 滑石 三兩. 右爲末, 每三錢, 白湯下, 日三服. 《仲景》
Translation
Treats lily disease that has changed into chill and fever. Lily bulb, 1 nyang; talc, 3 nyang. Powder, and take 3 don in plain hot water, three times a day. — Junggyeong 仲景 (Donguibogam · Han, lower)
Clinical commentary 臨床
A powder rather than a decoction, three times a day, which marks this as the formula for a pattern that has settled in for a while. Lily disease turning to chill and fever means the residual heat is trying to find a way out, and Zhongjing's answer is to give it one: talc at triple dose drains through the urine, which is the least costly exit for a patient whose yin is already thin. Sweating it out would cost fluid the patient does not have, and purging would cost more. The reasoning behind the route is the lesson here. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.