Formulas · Drain Dampness 利水滲濕 · Uihak Jeongjeon (醫學正傳)

Spirit Communication Drink

Sintong-eum

한글 신통음 · Pinyin Shen Tong Yin

神通飮

長流水 — water drawn from a long-running stream rather than a well — is specified; the tradition held it to have a downward-draining action of its own.

Composition 構成

Moktong Mu Tong
木通 목통 · Akebia

80 g
Chief 君

finely cut

Total 80 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

Treats joint-running wind
A single drug decocted in long-flowing water and drunk off at one draught

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Damp heat in the joints
White tiger joint-running wind

Biomedical correlates

Gout
Polyarthritis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治歷節風. 木通二兩, 剉細, 長流水煎湯, 頓服, 空心. 《正傳》 ○一人因風濕得白虎歷節風, 遍身疼痛ㆍ足不履地者三年, 百方不效. 一日夢與木通湯, 愈. 遂服此藥, 服後遍身痒甚, 上體發紅丹如小豆大, 隨手沒去, 出汗至腰而止, 上體不痛矣. 次日又如前煎服, 下體又發紅丹, 汗出至足而無痛. 後治數人皆驗. 一名曰木通湯. 《正傳》

Translation

Treats joint-running wind. Akebia, 2 nyang, finely cut and decocted in long-flowing water, drunk off at one draught on an empty stomach. A man, from wind damp, contracted white tiger joint-running wind, with pain over the whole body and unable to set foot to the ground for three years; a hundred prescriptions had no effect. One day he dreamt he was given an akebia decoction, and was cured. He thereupon took this medicine, and after taking it his whole body itched severely and red spots the size of small beans broke out on the upper body, vanishing as the hand passed over them; sweat came out as far as the waist and stopped there, and the upper body no longer hurt. The next day he decocted and took it as before, and the lower body too broke out in red spots, the sweat came out as far as the feet, and the pain was gone. Afterwards several people were treated and all were proven. Also called Moktong-tang. — Uihak Jeongjeon 正傳 (Donguibogam · Pung)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The best case report in the chapter, and the only one that records a sequence of events in order: itching, then red spots the size of beans on the upper body, sweat to the waist, pain gone above; the next day the same below. Whatever that was — a drug eruption as plausibly as a cure — somebody watched it happen and wrote down what they saw, including the detail that the spots vanished under the pressure of a hand, which is a blanching erythema. The dream that prescribed the remedy is part of the genre. Akebia is a diuretic and two nyang at a draught is a large single dose. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.