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Poria Noodles

Bongnyeong-myeon

한글 복령면 · Pinyin Fu Ling Mian

茯苓麪

Composition 構成

Baekbongnyeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

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Chief 君

equal part
Majain Huo Ma Ren
麻子仁 마자인 · Hemp Seed

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Deputy 臣

equal part, husked
Bongmil Feng Mi
蜂蜜 봉밀 · Honey

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Envoy 使

a little, as binder

Total g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 3 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Taken as an everyday food for long-standing haemorrhoids
Makes it possible to give up wine, meat, salt and fermented sauce

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Long-standing haemorrhoids in a depleted person
Haemorrhoids aggravated by rich and pungent food

Biomedical correlates

Chronic haemorrhoids — dietary management

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

白茯苓ㆍ麻子(去皮) 爲末, 和勻, 九蒸九曬, 入蜜少許, 常食之. 能斷酒肉ㆍ鹽醬, 可治久痔. 《入門》

Translation

White poria and hemp seed (husked), powdered and mixed evenly, steamed nine times and sun-dried nine times, with a little honey added; eaten every day. It makes it possible to give up wine and meat, salt and fermented sauce, and can treat long-standing haemorrhoids. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Hueum)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Not a medicine so much as a staple to replace the diet the previous section forbids. The prohibitions at 5.18 are long — wine, wet noodles, the five pungencies, hot and heavily spiced food, chicken, buckwheat noodles — and this is what the Immun offers to eat instead. 能斷酒肉鹽醬, it makes it possible to give up wine, meat, salt and sauce, is a claim about compliance rather than about the bowel. Hemp seed is a bulk laxative and poria a mild diuretic, so a daily food of the two keeps the stool soft, which is the whole of the treatment for haemorrhoids that are not to be cut. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.