Formulas · Harmonize 和解 · Uihak Gangmok (醫學綱目)

Stone Lotus Powder

Seokryeon-san

한글 석련산 · Pinyin Shi Lian San

石蓮散

Composition 構成

Seongnyeonja Shi Lian Zi
石蓮子 석련자 · Aged Lotus Seed

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Chief 君

husk knocked off, the plumule kept with the flesh, ground to powder; 2 don a dose
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

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Deputy 臣

stir-fried with east-wall earth and powdered, as the supporting draught
Byeokto Bi Tu
壁土 벽토 · Wall Earth

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Assistant 佐

earth of an east-facing wall
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

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Envoy 使

in the supporting draught
Daejo Da Zao
大棗 대조 · Jujube

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Envoy 使

in the supporting draught

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Actions 效能

Treats the clenched-mouth dysentery
Frees the heart qi so that the thought of food returns

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Toxic qi surging up to heart and lung with refusal of food

Biomedical correlates

Dysentery with intractable vomiting

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治噤口痢. 石蓮子, 槌去殼, 留心倂肉, 硏爲末, 每二錢, 陳米飮調下. 此疾由毒氣上衝心肺, 借此以通心氣, 便覺思食. 仍以東壁土炒橘皮爲末, 入薑ㆍ棗略煎服佐之. 《綱目》

Translation

Treats the clenched-mouth dysentery. Stone lotus seed, the husk knocked off and the plumule kept along with the flesh, ground to a powder; 2 don each time, stirred into aged rice water. This illness comes of toxic qi surging upward against the heart and lung; this is borrowed to free the heart qi, and the thought of food comes back at once. Then support it with tangerine peel stir-fried with east-wall earth and powdered, briefly decocted with ginger and jujube. — Uihak Gangmok 綱目 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The instruction to keep the plumule — the bitter green germ at the centre of the lotus seed — is precise and deliberate: that part is the one the tradition assigns to the heart, and the whole rationale here is that the vomiting comes from heat pressing on the heart rather than from the stomach. East-wall earth, taken from the side of the house the morning sun strikes first, is one of the stranger materials in the chapter, used as a stir-frying medium to make the tangerine peel settle the stomach. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.