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Bing ren yi (a sick person's clothes)

病人衣bing ren yi

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Recorded in Bencao Gangmu for epidemic pestilence, the early patient's clothes steamed over a steamer so the household is not infected.

Source

Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu)卷三十八·服帛类·病人衣·主治

References

functions_en self-translated from 本草纲目 traditional_functions (public domain; the Chinese tf carries verbatim excerpt_hash citations). No modern work consulted.
WHO IST-TCM terminology-aligned for the English rendering.
public pharmacopoeia & physical facts (public-domain reference facts; no proprietary modern source).

Traditional functions

Classical source text (Chinese) — English summary above.

传统中医记载：主天行疫瘟，取初病人衣服于甑上蒸过，则一家不染。

Citations

Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷三十八·服帛类·病人衣·条名Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its classification.
Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷三十八·服帛类·病人衣·主治Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its traditional functions.