Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Rehmannia Gruel

Jihwang-juk

한글 지황죽 · Pinyin Di Huang Zhou

地黃粥

Composition 構成

Saengjihwang Sheng Di Huang
生地黃 생지황 · Raw Rehmannia

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Chief 君

any quantity
Gaengmi Jing Mi
粳米 갱미 · Non-glutinous Rice

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Envoy 使

half a seung, steeped in the juice until soaked through, dried hard in the sun, steeped and dried again three times; one hop of it to a seung of decoction

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Actions 效能

Treats the eyes red and swollen after sleep
clearing gradually within a short while and gone after a long one
Cools the liver blood

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Blood heat reaching the liver in sleep
Morning redness of the eyes

Biomedical correlates

Morning conjunctival hyperaemia

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治睡後目赤腫, 須臾漸白, 良久則無. 此血熱, 非肝病也. 蓋人卧則血歸於肝, 因血熱到肝, 故睡起而目赤; 良久無事者, 血復散於四肢也. 宜食此粥以凉肝血. 生地黃不拘多少, 擣取自然汁, 浸粳米半升, 滲透晒極乾, 再浸再晒, 三次. 每用磁器煎湯一升令沸, 入前米一合, 熬作稀粥, 食遠喫之, 卽睡立效. 《入門》

Translation

Treats the eyes red and swollen after sleep, clearing gradually within a short while and gone after a long one. This is blood heat and not a disease of the liver. For when a person lies down the blood returns to the liver, and because the blood is hot it comes to the liver, so the eyes are red on waking; and that it is nothing after a long while is because the blood has scattered again to the four limbs. This gruel should be eaten to cool the liver blood. Raw rehmannia, any quantity, pounded for its own juice; steep half a seung of polished rice in it until soaked through and dry it hard in the sun, then steep and dry again, three times in all. Each time, boil a seung of water in an earthen vessel, put in one hop of the rice, and simmer it to a thin gruel; eat it between meals and go straight to sleep — immediate effect. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · An)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Food rather than medicine, and it is given for a sign most people would not think to treat: eyes red on waking that clear within the hour. The Immun's explanation is the Suwen's — the blood returns to the liver in sleep and scatters to the limbs on rising — and the preparation is a kitchen one, rice steeped in rehmannia juice and dried three times until it carries the drug. Eating it and going straight to sleep is the whole method. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.