Written By Jun Heo (許浚, 1539~1615), translated by Namil Kim, Wung Seok Cha et al. Published by Ministry of Health & Welfare (Korea)
26 Simple Prescriptions 單方단방
There are 70 kinds in total.
- Sulfur 硫黃: It treats watery diarrhea in cool diarrhea and fulminant diarrhea. Powder the same quantities of Sulfur (硫黃) and Talcum (滑石), put 3 don in the water, and take. The patient will recover right away.
- Niter 焰硝: It treats blocked feces and urine from obstruction and rejection. Mix half doe of honey, 2 don of Niter (焰硝), and boiled water. Take on an empty stomach and then feces and urine will come out.
- Loess 好黃土: It treats abdominal pain and hematochezia in red or white diarrhea and
dysentery. Decoct good Yellow Terra in water as it boils 3~5 times. Remove the sediments and take 1~2 doe at a time warm. - Fulvis Fumi Carbonisatus 百草霜: ① It treats acute diarrhea and dysentery. Mix 2 don of fine powder with gruel and take. ② When chronic diarrhea does not stop, make porridge with powdered Fulvis Fumi Carbonisatus (百草霜), and swallow with boiled water.
- Atractylodis Rhizoma 蒼朮: It treats diarrhea from dampness. It is also taken with boiled water decocted with 5 don of Poria Sclerotium (茯苓) or Paeoniae Radix (芍藥). Diarrhea from wind should be additionally prescribed with a decoction of Saposhnikoviae Radix (防風).
- Atractylodis Rhizoma 白朮: It treats all kinds of diarrhea. It is good to take this in decocted, powdered, or pill forms. When decocted with Paeoniae Radix (芍藥) and Poria Sclerotium (白茯苓) together, it is more effective in treating diarrhea.
- Plantaginis Herba 車前草: It treats heat diarrhea. Put 1 hop of honey in 1 glass of juice made by pounding the leaf and stem, warm it, and take two times.
- Plantaginis Semen 車前子: It treats all kinds of diarrhea. It is most effective to fry, powder, and take 2 don at a time mixed with porridge on an empty stomach. It is also effective to decoct it in water.
- Aucklandiae Radix 木香: It treats various kinds of diarrhea and dysentery. It is effective in decocted or powdered forms. It is also made into pills with Coptidis Rhizoma (黃連) together which treats red-white dysentery.
- Paeoniae Radix 芍藥: It treats diarrhea and dysentery. It is also good to take it in decoction, powder, or pill. A sour taste astringes and a sweet taste softens, so this medicine must be used in dysentery.
- Coptidis Rhizoma 黃連: It treats abdominal pain and the discharge of blood-pus in red-white dysentery. Take 3 don of the herb decocted in alcohol or mix with the white of an egg into pills and take. The reason Coptidis Rhizoma (黃連) treats dysentery is because of its dry property. Therefore, it is good for heat dysentery and blood dysentery but not for cold dysentery.
- Zingiberis Rhizoma 乾薑: This is commonly used for cold diarrhea and cold dysentery. It can be taken in decoction or powder. For blood dysentery, burn with the properties of the medicine kept, and take 1 don of powder at a time mixed in porridge.
- Trichosanthis Cucumeroidis Radix 土瓜根: It treats blocked feces. After making juice by pounding, blow into the anus with a bamboo pipe, and then feces will come out directly.
- Iris Lacteae Semen 馬藺子: It treats water dysentery. Fry it yellow, powder, and mix with flour. Put 2 don at a time in porridge and take.
- Hemerocallidis Radix 萱草根: It treats blocked feces. Drink juice made of 1 handful of Hemerocallidis Radix (萱草根) and Zingiberis Rhizoma (生薑) pound together. Feces will come out directly.
- Scutellariae Radix 黃芩: This is commonly used for abdominal pain and bodily fever in dysentery or red-white dysentery. It is prescribed with Paeoniae Radix (芍藥). It is taken in decoction, powder, or pill forms, which are all effective.
- Artemisiae Argyi Folium 艾葉: It is commonly used for red-white dysentery and pus-blood dysentery. Decoct with vinegar and take on an empty stomach.
- Sanguisorbae Radix 地楡: It treats dysentery. The cold and sinking properties enters the lower energizer to treat red-white dysentery or pus-blood dysentery. Decoct in water and take 3 hop on an empty stomach. This should not be prescribed for water diarrhea or white dysentery.
- Myristicae Semen 肉豆蔲: It is commonly used for pouring water-like diarrhea, which would not stop. Coat three of the herbs with flour, bake, powder, and wait for a while. It is very effective to take with porridge. The patient with abdominal pain and refusal of food from cold dysentery should take 1 don at a time in porridge.
- Amomi Fructus 縮砂: It treats diarrhea and intermittent dysentery. Take 1 don and take with porridge on an empty stomach.
- Rhei Radix et Rhizoma 大黃: It induces feces and urine and treats blood-pus in heat dysentery. Decoct in water to induce feces and decoct in alcohol for heat dysentery.
- Pharbitidis Semen 黑丑: ① It induces feces and urine. For blocked feces, powder raw and fried ones half each, put 2 don at a time in water decocted with Zingiberis Rhizoma (乾薑), and take. When feces still do not come out, take with hot tea. ② For wind constipation, make into dough 1 nyang slightly fried and powdered, and 5 don of Persicae Semen (桃仁) powder fried with wheatbran. Make the dough into pills the size of a seed of a foxglove tree and take 30 pills in warm water.
- Polygoni Avicularis Herba 萹蓄: It is commonly used for blocked feces and urine. Choose from ones growing around water’s edge with purple flowers. Take 1 glass of juice made of pounded root. It does not have to be taken once feces come out.
- Ulmi Cortex 楡白皮: It is commonly used for blocked feces and urine. Decoct in water and take on an empty stomach.
- Arecae Semen 檳榔: It promotes flow of feces and urine and treats blocked feces. Finely powder the medicinal and put 2 don each time in honeyed water and take on an empty stomach.
- Galla Rhois 五倍子: It treats diarrhea from a deficiency of the intestines. Powder and put 2 don each time in boiled water and take. It will directly stop diarrhea.
- Terminaliae Fructus 訶子皮: ① It is commonly used for diarrhea or red-white dysentery. Prepare 3 Terminaliae Fructus (訶子). Wrap two of them with wet paper, grind these together with one in the raw state. Add to hot water to take. ② For qi dysentery and chronic dysentery, bury under an ash Fire, grind the shell, and take 2 don each time in porridge and drink at once.
- Ailanthi Radicis Cortex 樗根白皮: This is commonly used for continuous diarrhea in red-white dysentery or chronic dysentery. Decoct 1 handful of Ailanthi Radicis Cortex (樗根白皮), 1 hop of old rice, 3 stems of Allii Fistulosi Bulbus (葱白), 3 cun of Glycyrrhizae Radix (甘草), 2 hop of Sojae Semen Praeparatum (豆豉) in water, and take on an empty stomach at once. This is all the more effective in blood-dysentery. When powdered and made into pills, it is called a Stabilize Yang Pill. It stops diarrhea. Powder it fine, put in porridge, and take all the time.
- Hibisci Flos 槿花: It is commonly used for red-white dysentery. It can be ground and added to porridge or mixed with flour into pancakes.
- Honey 蜜: It is best in treating dysentery. Put honey and the juice of Zingiberis Rhizoma
(乾薑) 1 hop each in warm water and drink at once. - Cera Flava 蠟: This is usually used for discharge of blood-pus in dysentery. Scoop the same amounts of Cera Flava (黃蠟) with silver comb, fumigate above a sesame oil lamp so it drops down into the water bowl. Repeat this for seven times and make into pills the size of a seed of the daikon. Take 30 pills at a time with water decocted with Glycyrrhizae Radix (甘草) for white dysentery and water decocted with Mume Fructus Praeparatum (烏梅) for red dysentery.
- Ostreae Testa 牡蠣粉: It stops the flow of feces and urine, and treats incontinence of urine. Powder the same quantities of Ostreae Testa (牡蠣粉) and Alumen (礬石) (baked), take three times a day, 2 don at a time, in alcohol.
- Amydae Carapax 鱉: ① It treats prolapse of the rectum after dysentery. ② One person had dysentery for more than a month with loose feces for five to six times a day and prolapse of the rectum. For treatment, one soft-shelled turtle was trimmed as in cooking, added with Zingiberis Rhizoma (乾薑) and dry rice to make into soup. Only a little mass of sugar was put and no salt or soy sauce was added. The person took one or two bowls of this in a day and was recovered in three days. It is effective since the soft-shelled turtle is an animal with shell which belongs to Metal tonifying the lungs and large intestine.
- Sliced raw Carassius auratus 鮒魚膾: ① It is commonly used for chronic red-white dysentery or dysentery. It is taken in a mixture with vinegar, soy sauce, and garlic. ② For blood dysentery or food-denying dysentery, chop the air bladder of a fish, burn with Alumen (礬石), and add the powder to porridge. It can also be taken with completely steamed Alumen (礬石) with the addition of salt and vinegar.
- Vespae Nidus 露蜂房: It treats red-white dysentery and blocked feces and urine. It is effective to powder the tip of vespiary, mix with alcohol, and take 1 don each time. This is also called Vespae Nidus Pedicellus (紫金砂).
- Muscae Vermis 糞蛆: It treats food-denying dysentery with great effect. Dry the maggots by exposing them to fire and powder, mix with clear porridge, and drink.
- Nelumbinis Semen 蓮子肉: It stops dysentery and treats food-denying dysentery. Peel the skin leaving the core. Powder, mix with porridge, and take 2 don each time.
- Mume Fructus Praeparatum 烏梅: ① It stops diarrhea dysentery. ② In blood dysentery, take 1 Mume Fructus Praeparatum Alba (梅肉) (白梅肉) and Camelliae Sinensis Folium decocted with vinegar-added water. The patient should take only once to see the effect. ③ In red dysentery and chronic dysentery, take water decocted with Mume Fructus Praeparatum (烏梅) and add some honey. ④ In intermittent dysentery, take a pill that has been made of good quality tea and dry Zingiberis Rhizoma (乾薑).
- Persicae Flos 桃花: It promotes the flow of feces and urine. Gather falling flowers, dry in the shade, powder, and add to water or make into pancakes to take.
- Persicae Folium 桃葉: It is commonly used for blocked feces and urine. Half doe of pound juice will be enough to discharge feces and urine. It treats blocked or difficult feces in blood binding, blood constipation, and blood dryness. Make into porridge with juice extracted by grinding Persicae Semen (桃仁), powder, and take.
- Granati Pericarpium 酸石榴殼: ① It stops red-white dysentery. Burn until red, powder, and take with porridge 2 don each time. It also treats fulminant diarrhea which would not stop. ② When cold and heat are not even or when feces of red, white, blue, yellow come out, take 1 hop at a time of juice made by pounding 5 Granati Fructus (石榴) including the peel. Or powder the peel and knead with cooked rice to make into pills and take.
- Cannabis Semen 大麻仁: It treats blocked feces and urine, wind constipation, heat constipation, and blood constipation. Grind into juice and make porridge to take. It can also be made into porridge with the juice from Perillae Semen (蘇子). This is called Perilla and Ephedra Porridge.
- Sesami Crudus Oleum 生脂麻油: It treats blocked feces from heat constipation. Take 1 hop each time until feces comes out.
- Phaseoli Semen 赤小豆: ① It stops diarrhea or dysentery. It is taken in porridge. ② In red white dysentery, make porridge and take with 1 nyang of Cera Flava (黃蠟).
- Waxy rice 糯米: It stops diarrhea. One raw and fried part each, it is very effective to take it in porridge.
- Massa Medicata Fermentata 神麯: ① It stops diarrhea and dysentery. Fry, powder, mix into millet porridge, and take three times a day, two don each time. ② Acute diarrhea in summer should be prescribed with Massa Medicata Fermentata (神麯) (fried), Atractylodis Rhizoma (蒼朮) (processed) the same quantities, ground, doughed with flour paste, and made into pills the size of a seed of a foxglove tree. It should be taken 30 pills at a time in porridge. This is called an Atractylodes Medicated Leaven Pill (麴朮丸).
∙ Pericarpium Papaveris 罌粟殼: ① It is commonly used for all kinds of dysentery. When there is no abdominal pain in chronic dysentery, the diarrhea should cease. Remove the tip and inside, fry with vinegar, powder, mix with porridge, and take one don each time. ② This dramatically treats dysentery. However, from its tight and coarse properties, it may produce nausea or food-refusal dysentery when used too early. ③ Chronic dysentery with diarrhea more than a hundred times a day should be prescribed with the peel of this medicinal soaked one night in the juice of Zingiberis Rhizoma (乾薑) and then fried, dried, and put 2 don at a time with porridge. This is called One in a Hundred Powder. - Malvae Semen 冬葵子: It treats abdominal bloating in blocked feces and urine. Put 2 doe of Malvae Semen (冬葵子) in 4 doe of water and decoct until only 1 doe is left, mix 1 hop of pig’s oil, and take. Then feces and urine will come out.
- Stellariae Mediae Herba 雞腸草: It is commonly used for pediatric red-white dysentery. It is good to take 1 hop of juice with honey.
- Capsellae Bursa-pastoris Herba 薺菜: It is commonly used for red-white dysentery. It is very effective to powder the ashes of burned roots and leaves, mix with porridge, and take.
- Allii Fistulosi Bulbus 葱白: ① Cures the stoppage of feces and urine. It is effective to pound Allii Fistulosi Bulbus (葱白), mix with vinegar, and stick it on the lower stomach. ② For red-white dysentery, slice 1 hand of Allii Fistulosi Bulbus (葱白) thinly, make porridge with rice, and take it. Cures many kinds of dysentery. For red dysentery, mix the juice of garlic chives, and alcohol and drink it warm 1 glass. For water-food dysentery, make soup or cook porridge, and take it. As this is taken boiled or fried, eat randomly. For white dysentery, decoct and take it.
- Allii Macrostemi Bulbus 薤白: ① Cures chronic dysentery and cold diarrhea. Always decoct and take it. ② For red-white dysentery, cook porridge with Allii Macrostemi Bulbus (薤白) and rice.
- Alli Bulbus 獨頭蒜: Cures the blockage of feces. Bury in a fire turning to ashes and bake it without its skin. Then wrap with cloth and put it in the anus. Change when it gets cold. Then feces comes out soon.
- Portulacae Herba 馬齒莧: ① It promotes the flow of feces and urine. Make into soup with rice powder and seasoning and take. ② For red-white dysentery, mix 3 hop of juice made by pounding with 1 white of an egg, and take it warm. Taking it twice will be enough. Or cook Joseph’s coat well, add salt, soy sauce, Zingiberis Rhizoma (乾薑), vinegar, mix well, and take. ③ For pediatric blood dysentery, add 1 hop of common purslane juice and 1 spoon of honey and take.
- Raphani Hortensis Radix 白蘿蔔: It treats chronic dysentery. Taking half doe of juice and half doe of honey decocted together will have an immediate effect.
- Carbonisatus Crinis 亂髮: ① It is commonly used for blocked feces and urine. Mix 1 don of fire ash in warm water and take three times a day. ② For red-white dysentery, take as in the method previously mentioned, or make into pills and take.
- Galli Femininus Caro 黃雌雞: ① It treats chronic red-white dysentery. Trim one of the medicinal as in cooking, make into soup, and take all the time. ② When feces come out continuously like diarrhea, trim one chicken as in cooking, bake on the fire, clean with salt and vinegar, bake again completely, and take on an empty stomach. This is called Cooked Chicken Powder.
- Galli Ovum 雞子: It treats chronic red-white dysentery. Boil completely in vinegar and take on an empty stomach. It can also be removed of the shell, mixed with 1 don of melted Cera Flava (黃蠟), fried, and then taken. In addition, the yolk can be burned with Hydrocerussitum (胡粉) and powdered to be taken 1 don at a time with alcohol.
- Black boned chicken 烏骨雞: It treats pediatric food-denying dysentery. Take the clear soup which is made by trimming one whole medicinal as in cooking and boil it. Then dysentery will stop and the stomach will be opened.
- Anatis Domesticae Caro 家鴨: It stops dysentery. Trim the medicinal as in cooking and boil it. Drink the boiled water and eat the meat. It can be made into soup.
- Phasiani Caro 雉: It treats continuous diarrhea and the inability to swallow food in chronic dysentery. Trim the medicinal as in cooking, add tangerine, Zanthoxyli Pericarpium (川椒), leek, salt, soy sauce, and make into dumplings to take.
- Bovis Jecur 牛肝: It treats dysentery. Boil it with vinegar and take.
- Bovis Horn 牛角䚡: It treats red-white dysentery and cold dysentery. Draw the blood out, burn with the properties of kept medicine, and powder. Mix 2 don each time with warm alcohol or porridge or make into pills with honey and take.
- Canitis Mas Capitis Os 黃雄狗頭骨: It treats chronic dysentery, old dysentery, and intermittent dysentery. Bake the skull yellowish and powder it. Mix 2 don each time with porridge and take, or make into pills with honey.
- Canitis Jecur 狗肝: It treats dysentery and pain around the umbilicus. Thinly slice one liver of a dog, add 1 doe of rice, and cook into porridge. Add leek, Zanthoxyli Pericarpium (川椒), salt, soy sauce, and take.
- Suis Jecur 猪肝: ① It is commonly used for cold diarrhea, dampness diarrhea, and continuous diarrhea. Slice the liver thinly, spread warm Terminaliae Fructus (訶子皮) powder (baked while buried under an ash Fire), and then bake completely on low heat. Powder 5 don each time and eat with porridge on an empty stomach. ② For fulminant diarrhea and dampness diarrhea, boil pig’s liver completely with the upper half water of millet porridge and take. When the body becomes thin with qi-deficiency dysentery, slice one pig’s liver, boil it with 1 doe of vinegar, and take on an empty stomach. The effect is dramatic.
- Suilus Fel 猪膽: It treats blocked feces.
27 Acupuncture and Moxibustion 鍼灸法침구법
① Continuous diarrhea results in persons drinking water from severe thirst. When water is drunk, diarrhea will follow, and after diarrhea the person will seek water again. Because no medicine will work, apply moxibustion on GV-14 for 15 times.
② For a person with diarrhea for fifteen years, moxibustion on GV-20 thirty five times treated the person.
③ Chronic diarrhea or dysentery is applied with moxibustion on ST-25 and CV-6.
④ When diarrhea or dysentery does not stop, apply moxibustion on CV8 for seven times and on CV4 for thirty times.
⑤ In the treatment of loose stools, it is best to apply moxibustion on the umbilicus and next is on the SP6.
⑥ For diarrhea or dysentery, apply moxibustion on BL60 for as many times as one’s age, on the umbilicus for twenty times, on CV4 for a hundred times, and on Sambo (三報, acupoint 5 chi lateral from the umbilicus) for fourteen times.
⑦ For swill diarrhea consider treatment on SP9, KI2, ST37, and LR3.
⑧ Watery diarrhea, cold hands and feet, a faint pulse about to be disappear, pain around the umbilicus, and worsening dyspnea should be applied with moxibustion on CV6 for a hundred times.
⑨ Abdominal pain and blood-pus feces in dysentery should be treated on CV4, KI7, BL27, ST25, and SP16. ⑩ Give moxibustion on CV4 and Qiong Gu (窮谷, one of the extrapoints) for fifty times for cold dysentery.
⑪ Tightening abdominal pain and heaviness on the bottom are treated on LI4 and TE5.
⑫ When dysentery does not stop, consider treatment on LI4, ST36, SP9, CV12, CV4, ST25, CV8, and CV3.
⑬ For all kinds of dysentery, it is good to apply moxibustion on SP2 five times and on SP5 and SP9 for three times.
⑭ In constipation, apply acupuncture on KI6 , TE6 , and SP3.
⑮ In blocked feces, treat on LI3, BL57, SP3, KI4, ST36, KI1, BL60, KI6, LR13, and CV6.
⑯ SP2, Huan Gang (環崗, one of the extrapoints), and ST28 are used to treat disturbed defecation and urination.
⑰ When the patient has nausea and vomiting and blocked urine from obstruction and rejection, first apply moxibustion on CV6 and ST25 for twenty one times and when vomiting stops, prescribe Augment Base Powder (益元散) to promote urine.
⑱ Postpartum abdominal distention with blocked feces, and urine should be treated on CV6, ST36, CV4, SP6, and KI10.
