Pulp water has a long history, great clinical value, there is a certain controversy in the understanding of pulp water among various generations of doctors, in the "Golden Essentials" fox puzzle disease article 13 red bean angelica scatter certificate (also seen in the lower blood disease article 16), malaria disease article 5 Shu lacquer scatter certificate, the fifth alum stone soup certificate, vomiting disease article 20 half summer dried ginger scatter certificate, women's pregnancy disease article 10 white art scattered evidence are mentioned in the pulp water decoction. So what exactly is slurry water? For thousands of years, many doctors have also had a common understanding of slurry water, such as the "Compendium of Materia Medica" said that slurry water is also known as sour slurry. Jia Moyun: "Cook corn rice cooked, put in cold water, soaked for five or six days, sour taste, raw white flowers, color slurry, hence the name." Xu Lingti said in "On Typhoid Fever": "Pulp water is tao rice swill water, and it is better to store sour for a long time." "There are also doctors who believe that pulp water is a sauerkraut soup often eaten by ethnic minorities in the south.
1 Method of preparation of slurry water
Zhang Zhongjing's ancestral home is located in Nanyang, Henan, and the practice of Nanyang pulp water is to use wheat, mung beans or sweet potatoes as raw materials. (1) Wheat to make pulp water is to wheat flour and into a dough, put in water with both hands to keep grasping, the gluten out, then take the liquid on the top of the place for 1 to 2 days after acid is obtained; (2) mung bean pulp water is to use water to soak the beans grinding and crushing, after precipitation, take the liquid on top of it for 1 to 2 days that is, acid, that is, pulp water; (3) Sweet potato pulp water The method is basically the same, beat the sweet potato into fine powder, use a fine cloth, pour the slag left on the muslin, and leave the remaining liquid for a period of time to be precipitated. Take the above liquid and leave it for 1 to 2 days to ferment. Although the above three raw materials are more common as ordinary ingredients, they also have rich medicinal value. Wheat sown in autumn, nurtured in winter, grown in spring, harvested in summer, and with the qi of the four hours, the soil is the thickest, and it is the first of the five grains. Its sweet taste, mild coldness, psychic and spleen two meridians, with a healthy spleen and qi, nourishing the heart and eliminating troubles, clearing heat and quenching thirst. Mung bean taste sweet and cold, return to the heart, stomach meridian, the effect can clear heat, detoxification, heat and diuresis. "Kaibao Materia Medica" contains: "Cooking, reducing swelling and qi, clearing heat and detoxification, raw research and wringing juice, treating erysipelas and irritability, rubella, after the drug, hot gas rushing dolphin." "Sweet potatoes in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Materia Medica" and other ancient documents recorded, has the effect of tonifying weakness, improving qi, strengthening the spleen and stomach, strengthening the kidney yin, can make people live longer and less diseases, and also has the effect of tonifying, and blood, warming the stomach, fat and other functions. The slurry made of wheat, mung beans or sweet potatoes after fermentation can enhance its therapeutic effect and thus achieve the corresponding therapeutic purposes. "Jiayou Materia Medica" contains: "The pulp water tastes sweet and sour, slightly warm, and non-toxic." The "Supplement to the Derivation of Materia Medica" says: "The pulp water tastes sweet and sour and sexual. The Second Commentary on the Golden Jade Letter says: "The pulp water tastes sour, relieves heat and heals troubles, and enters the blood as an auxiliary envoy." Note from the "Outline of the Golden Plateau": "The slurry water can condition the Tibetan intestines, and the common is an agent for curing sores and pus." "The author believes that the pulp water tastes sweet acid, when taken raw, it is cool, boiling can increase its warmth, gan can protect the stomach, acid can absorb liver qi, cool into the blood can clear the heat, and cooking can prevent cold from being too cold and hurting.
2 The role of slurry water
(1) The role of raw pulp water, in fox disease, red bean angelica powder is used to treat the symptoms of damp heat depression poisoning into pus, and use it to clear heat and dehumidify, detoxify and drain pus. The certificate with raw pulp water glycic acid cool can enhance the effect of detoxification and detoxification, but also because the heat poison is depressed in the blood, with the liver network on the eye, resulting in red eyes like dove eyes, so you can use its acidic liver through the reverse qi; the next blood disease article treatment of near-blood red bean angelica scatter, its disease mechanism and the above diseases are the same, so the pulp water can also play a role in detoxification and detoxification, which is a different disease. The above two points reflect the effect of raw pulp water flavor sweet acid cool can clear heat and detoxify without harming the positive effect. (2) The role of cooked pulp water, malaria disease Shu lacquer powder treatment of malaria malaria, its disease is mostly caused by the body of yang deficiency, compound due to malaria evil phlegm obstruction, Fang Houyun: "Before the occurrence, take half a dollar with pulp water." Fang Zhong used Shu lacquer and pulp water to spit out to emit YueYang Qi, Liu Duzhou believes that "pulp water and stomach, but also help Shu paint to spit stubborn", indicating that the pulp water here is to help Shu paint to spit out stubborn phlegm, and to prevent vomiting after injury to the stomach, all take the effect of pulp water glycic acid and stomach rational qi; the fifth alum stone soup treats beriberi punching, and this article is the external treatment method of beriberi punching.
Beriberi is a disease of swelling and severe pain in the legs and feet caused by wet evil bets, and in severe cases, it can be caused by beriberi, that is, palpitations, vomiting, asthma and other symptoms, and can be considered for treatment with alum stone soup. Among them, the alum taste is sour and astringent cold, has the function of dehumidification and astringent, and has the effect of clearing heat and detoxification, and decoction with slurry water can help alum convergence and reduce reversal to cure beriberi; vomiting disease half summer dry ginger scatter is the treatment of insufficient yang, cold drink stop stomach vomiting evidence, decoction with pulp water to take it, can concentrate the medicinal power, and with its sweet taste to strengthen the effect of warm and stop vomiting; women's pregnancy disease chapter Bai Shu scatter is the treatment of fetal restlessness caused by spleen deficiency and cold wetness, Fang Houyun: "... Upset and vomiting, unable to eat or drink, add one or two fine spices, and twenty pieces of half a summer. After serving, take it with vinegar syrup water. If vomiting, take the vinegar syrup water to serve it...", this vinegar slurry water is the slurry water, with vinegar to emphasize its acidity, because the phlegm drinks in the chest, so the heart is upset and vomiting, can not eat and drink, add fine spices, half summer to eliminate phlegm to water, with the pulp water to adjust, if vomiting will damage the stomach, consume the jin liquid, here the pulp water reflects the beneficial stomach jin, reduce the role of anti-nausea. It can be seen from this that Zhang Zhongjing makes full use of the characteristics of the good deeds of the pulp water to help publicize the stagnation and use its coolness into the blood to relieve heat. Folk in Nanyang, Henan, often use slurry water as a soup dish to eat, such as pulp water surface. However, because the slurry water can help digestion, and stomach gas, reduce stagnation, and has no toxic side effects, it is used as decoction water, which is more conducive to the absorption of drugs and promotes the efficacy of drugs. Pulp water has a long history and great clinical value, but due to its complex production and other reasons, it has rarely been made. And there is still some controversy in the understanding of each generation of doctors on the slurry water, and its good medicinal value should be further studied on the slurry water, looking for what Zhongjing thinks and using, and carrying it forward.