The efficacy of Yizhiren porridge

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[Function and indication] Warming the spleen, warming the kidney, consolidating qi, and astringing semen. Treating cold abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea caused by cold, excessive salivation, spermatorrhea, residual urine, and frequent urination at night.

① "Guangzhi": "Hold it in your mouth to absorb the saliva and dirt."

② "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Stops vomiting and hiccups." "Treats spermatorrhea, urine retention, replenishes qi and calms the mind, replenishes deficiency, benefits the three burners, regulates various qi, and for those who urinate frequently at night, take 24 pieces, crush them, add salt and boil them together."

③Liu Wansu: "It can open up the stagnation and make the Qi flow freely."

④ "Medical Origin": "It can treat cold evil in the spleen and stomach, harmonize the middle and replenish qi. It can be used together with tonic medicine to treat excessive salivation."

⑤ Wang Haogu: "It benefits the spleen and stomach, regulates vital energy, replenishes kidney deficiency, and smoothes the body."

⑥ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It treats abdominal pain caused by cold air, insufficient heart qi, nocturnal emission, red turbidity, heat damage to the heart system, vomiting blood, and hemorrhage."

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decocted in water, 1 to 3 qian; or made into pills or powder.

[Dos and Don’ts] People with yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire, or who suffer from nocturnal emission, menorrhagia or uterine bleeding due to heat should not take it.

① "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Vomiting is caused by heat, not cold; Qi reversal is caused by anger, not weakness; residual urine is caused by water depletion and internal heat, not by kidney Qi deficiency and cold; diarrhea is caused by dampness and fire, not by Qi deficiency and slippery intestines, and should be avoided."

② "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It is forbidden to use in patients with metrorrhagia and turbidity due to heat."

③ "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": "If the blood is dry and there is fire, it should not be used by mistake."

[Selected Prescriptions] ① Treat cold due to excessive yin, fullness in the heart and abdomen, vomiting, diarrhea, cold hands and feet, and all kinds of cold air rushing, fullness and colic in the heart, ribs, navel and abdomen: 4 liang of Chuanwu (fried, peeled and navel removed), 2 liang of Yizhi (peeled), 0.5 liang of dried ginger (fried), 3 liang of Qingpi (white part removed). Powder the above ingredients. Take 3 qian each time, add 2 cups of water, a pinch of salt, 5 slices of ginger, 2 jujubes, break them up, boil together until 80% done, remove the residue, take warm, before meals. (Yizhi Powder from the Bureau Prescriptions)

② Treat abdominal distension and sudden diarrhea that does not stop day and night, and other medicines are ineffective. This is due to loss of Qi: 2 liang of Alpinia oxyphylla seeds. Boil it in a concentrated form and drink it. ("Shiyi Dexiao Fang")

③Treatment of nocturnal emission: 2 liang of Alpinia oxyphyllae (fried with 2 liang of salt, remove the salt), 2 liang of Linderae radix, grind the above into powder, use 1 liang of Chinese yam to make a paste, mix into pills as big as sycamore seeds, take 50 pills each time, on an empty stomach before lying down, with salt water, and coat with cinnabar. (Sanxian Pills from "Shiyi Dexiao Fang")

④ Treat bladder qi deficiency and coldness, frequent urination, or incontinence, especially effective for children: Take equal parts of Linderae radix and Alpinia oxyphyllae. Grind the above into powder, boil the yam powder with wine, and make into pills the size of tung seeds. Take 70 pills each time, with salt wine or rice drink. (Suquan Pills in "Good Prescriptions for Women", which is Guzhen Pills in "Wei's Family Prescriptions")

⑤ Treat enuresis in children and leukorrhea: divide Yizhiren and Bai Fuling into equal parts and grind them into powder. Take one qian each time, and mix with rice soup on an empty stomach. (Yizhiren powder in "Bu Yao Xiu Xiao Er Fang Lun")

⑥ Treating metrorrhagia in women: stir-fry and grind Alpinia oxyphylla into fine powder, add salt to rice water and take one qian. (Jingxiaochanbao)

⑦Treatment of bleeding during pregnancy: 0.5 liang of Alpinia oxyphyllae and 1 liang of Amomum villosum. Grind into powder. Take 3 qian each time, on an empty stomach with white soup, twice a day. (Hu's "Ji Yin Fang")

⑧ Treat hernia pain, including lower abdominal cramps and constant screaming: 3 qian each of Yizhiren, dried ginger (fried), licorice (roasted), fennel (fried), 0.5 liang each of Aconitum (fried, peeled), ginger, 2 qian of Qingpi (remove the white part). Cut the above into small pieces. Take 4 qian each time, add 2 cups of water and a little salt, boil until 70% done, remove the residue, and take warm on an empty stomach before meals. (Yizhiren Decoction in Jisheng Fang)

⑨ Treat leukorrhea and abdominal distension, regardless of sex: Alpinia oxyphyllae (fried in salt water) and Magnolia officinalis (fried in ginger juice) in equal parts. Add three slices of ginger and one jujube, decoct in water and drink. (Yongleiqin Prescription)

⑩Treatment of red and turbid urine: 2 liang each of Alpinia oxyphylla and Poria cocos, 0.5 jin each of Polygala tenuifolia and Licorice root (boiled in water). Grind into powder, make into pills with wine paste, the size of walnuts. Take 50 pills with ginger soup on an empty stomach. (Compendium of Materia Medica)