Euryale Seed Gruel

Geomin-juk

한글 검인죽 · Pinyin Qian Ren Zhou

芡仁粥

Composition 構成

Geomin Qian Shi
芡仁 검인 · Euryale Seed (also called geomsil 芡實)

120 g
Chief 君

"雞頭實末二合, powdered cock's-head fruit, approx: true"
Gaengmi Jing Mi
粳米 갱미 · Non-glutinous Rice

60 g
Deputy 臣

粳米一合, polished rice, approx: true

Total 180 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

Received this formula from your practitioner? Amounts shown here are classical reference values — granule and prepared products differ. Always follow your prescribed dosage and directions.

Actions 效能

Boosts the essence Qi and sharpens the ears and eyes
Arrests the years

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Taken over a long time for longevity
A depleted centre with weak essence

Biomedical correlates

Traditional longevity gruel
Nourishing breakfast preparation

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

芡仁粥, 粳米一合ㆍ雞頭實末二合, 煮粥, 空心服之. 益精氣, 聰利耳目, 能駐年. 《本草》

Translation

Geominja-juk: 1 hop of polished rice and 2 hop of powdered cock's-head fruit, boiled into a gruel and taken on an empty stomach. It boosts the essence Qi, sharpens the ears and eyes, and is able to arrest the years. — Boncho 本草 (Donguibogam · Sinhyeong)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Two parts seed flour to one of rice, which makes it a substantial breakfast rather than a thin gruel. Euryale seed is an ordinary food in Korea and China and it is also the corpus's chief astringent for an essence that will not hold, so the gruel does double duty. The Body chapter pairs it with lotus seed as the confection the immortals' recipes are said to favour, and of everything in that chapter's simples this and the plain rice gruel at the end are the two a reader can make tonight. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.