Formulas · Tonify Yin 補陰 · Junggyeong (仲景)

Lily Bulb Wash

Baekhapse-bang

한글 백합세방 · Pinyin Bai He Xi Fang

百合洗方

An external wash rather than a drug taken internally; measured by volume, so grams are given as 0.

Composition 構成

Baekhap Bai He
百合 백합 · Lily Bulb

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Chief 君

one seung, steeped overnight in one mal of water, for external washing

Total 0 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Moistens the body from the outside
Relieves the thirst of a prolonged lily disease

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Lily disease unresolved after a month and turned to thirst
Yin depletion with thirst that drinking does not relieve

Biomedical correlates

Persistent dry mouth in convalescence
Sicca symptoms after prolonged illness

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治百合病一月不差, 變成渴者. 百合一升, 水一斗, 漬一宿, 洗一身. 已, 宜淡食. 《仲景》

Translation

Treats lily disease that has not resolved in a month and has turned to thirst. Lily bulb, 1 seung; water, 1 mal. Steep overnight and wash the whole body. Afterwards the patient should eat blandly. — Junggyeong 仲景 (Donguibogam · Han, lower)

Clinical commentary 臨床

A month of lily disease ending in thirst, and Zhongjing's response is to wash the patient rather than dose them — which looks strange until you notice that thirst at this stage is not a want of water in the stomach but dryness of the whole surface, and drinking does not touch it. The wash treats the skin, where the dryness actually is. The closing instruction to eat blandly afterwards belongs with it: nothing rich, nothing spiced, because the stomach is to be left alone while the fluids rebuild. Among the oldest external treatments in the canon still worth copying. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.