Arisaema Drink for Chronic Fright

Not the other 南星飮, although both carry the Deukhyo label. That one treats 風邪入腦 with a hard thing formed inside the nose — a polyp — and is large white arisaema sliced and scalded, 2 don a dose with seven jujubes and a little licorice, followed by a long-pepper cake ironed on the fontanelle. This one is a whole roasted corm with winter melon seed and hyacinth bean, for a drooling infant who will not feed. Arisaema is the only drug the two have in common, the indications do not overlap at all, and neither the weights nor the preparation agree; they are homonyms, so this leaf takes the chapter tail. 涎盛 — drool in abundance. That is what arisaema is for throughout the tradition, and the drooling of a child who has stopped swallowing is real enough. It is also a sign that the child has lost airway control, which makes it a reason to stop giving things by mouth rather than a reason to give a powder. **Contains arisaema, which is a severe mucosal irritant unless properly processed — raw, it blisters the mouth and throat and can swell the airway — and here a whole corm is used. The patient is a child, the text gives no dose by weight anywhere, and the child is already drooling.** It must not be prepared. The reading for this whole section is at sinhyo-san-soa. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.