Herb

Dao zhong re tu (hot roadway earth)

道中热土dao zhong re tu
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Recorded in Bencao Gangmu for summer heatstroke collapse, the hot earth piled on the chest and renewed as it cools until qi flows and the person revives.

Source

Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu)卷七·土部·道中热土·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：主夏月暍死，以土积心口，少冷即易，气通则苏；古载热土围脐旁、令人尿脐中。

Citations
  • Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷七·土部·道中热土·条名Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its classification.
  • Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷七·土部·道中热土·主治Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its traditional functions.