Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Uibang Yuchwi (醫方類聚)

The Water-Soaking Method

Suji-beop

한글 수지법 · Pinyin Shui Zi Fa

水漬法

A procedure rather than a prescription; the mung bean of the second method is recorded as the ingredient so the entry can be indexed with the formulas. The cloth is the apparatus. Cross-referenced from the 傷寒發狂 section of the lower volume.

Composition 構成

Nokdu Lu Dou
菉豆 녹두 · Mung Bean

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Chief 君

boiled into a decoction for the second method

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Actions 效能

Treats yang toxin with great heat and raving mania that cannot be subdued
Cloths soaked in cold water or mung bean decoction laid on the chest and changed dozens of times a day

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Extreme exterior heat with mania
Hyperthermia

Biomedical correlates

Hyperthermia
Heat stroke with delirium

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治陽毒大熱ㆍ發狂不能制伏. 靑布五六尺, 疊摺, 新水浸之, 搭病人胸上. 須臾蒸熱, 又浸水又搭之, 日數十易爲佳. 《得效》 ○又法, 菉豆煮湯一鍋, 稍溫, 用靑布數重蘸湯, 搭於胸膈, 冷則再蘸湯搭之, 日數十易, 被蓋覆, 得汗而愈. 蓋菉豆ㆍ靑布性凉ㆍ能退熱故也. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats yang toxin with great heat and raving mania that cannot be subdued. Take five or six cheok of blue cloth, fold it over, soak it in newly drawn water and lay it on the patient's chest. After a while it steams hot; soak it in water again and lay it on again, and changing it dozens of times a day is best. Another method: boil a pan of mung bean decoction, let it cool a little, dip several thicknesses of blue cloth in it and lay it on the chest and diaphragm; when it cools, dip it again and lay it on, changing it dozens of times a day, keeping him covered with bedding, and with the sweating there is recovery. For mung bean and blue cloth are cool in nature and can make the heat retreat. — Uibang Yuchwi 得效 · Dangye Simbeop 丹心 (Donguibogam · Han)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The best thing in the yang toxin section, because it is simply right: cold wet cloths on the trunk, changed as soon as they warm, dozens of times a day. Conductive and evaporative cooling applied to the chest is how hyperthermia is treated now, and the detail that makes the entry convincing is the one about the cloth steaming hot — somebody watched it happen and understood that the heat was being carried away. The second method with mung bean decoction adds nothing pharmacologically and the explanation offered for it is wrong, but the procedure is unchanged. The instruction to keep the patient covered works against the cooling and is the one part to drop. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.