一名木蜜
润，解酒
甘平。止渴除烦，润五脏，解酒毒（葛根解酒毒，而发散不如枳 。屋外有枳 树，屋
内酿酒多不佳。赵以得治酒毒、房劳病热者，加葛根于补气血药中，一贴微汗，反解怠，热
如故。知气血虚，不禁葛根之散也，必得枳 方可，偶得干者加入即愈。《东坡集》曰∶杨
颖臣病消渴，日饮水数斗，饭亦倍进，小便频数，服消渴药，日甚。延张肱诊之，笑曰∶君
几误死，取麝香当门子，以酒濡作十许丸，枳 子煎汤吞之遂愈。问其故，肱曰∶消渴消中
，皆脾弱肾败、土不制水而成。今颖臣脾脉极热，肾脉不衰，当由酒果过度，积热在脾，所
以多食多饮，饮多溲不得不多，非消非渴也。麝香坏酒果，枳 能胜酒，故假二物以去其酒
果之毒也。雷 曰∶凡使麝香，用当门子尤妙）。
俗名鸡距，以实拳曲如鸡距。蜀呼为棘枸。经霜黄赤，甚甘。其叶入酒，酒化为水。
补命门，肉润，皮涩
味甘气热。皮涩（皮敛肺定喘，固肾涩精。今药中罕用，昂谓若用之，当胜金樱、莲须
也）肉润，皮汁青黑，属水入肾。通命门，利三焦，温肺润肠，补气养血。佐补骨脂，一木
一火，大补下焦（胡桃属木，破故纸属火，有木火相生之妙。古云∶黄柏无知母，破故纸无
胡桃，犹水母之无虾也。时珍曰∶三焦者，无气之别使；命门者，三焦之本原。命门指所居
之府而言，为藏精、系胞之物；三焦指所治之部而名，为出纳、腐熟之司。一为体，一为用
也。其体非脂非肉，白膜裹之，在脊骨第七节两肾中央，系着于脊，下通二肾，上通心、肺
贯脑。为生命之源，相火之生，精气之府，人物皆有之。生人生物，皆由此出。《内经》所
谓七节之旁，中有小心是也。《难经》误以右肾为命门。高阳生承谬脉诀，至朱肱、陈言、
戴起宗始辟之。夫肾命相通，藏精而恶燥，胡桃颇类其状。汁青黑，故入北方，佐破故纸，
润燥而调血，使精气内充，血脉通利，诸疾自除矣。男女交媾，皆禀此命火而结胎。人之穷
通寿夭，皆根于此），三焦通利，故上而虚寒喘嗽（能温肺化痰。洪迈有痰疾，晚对上谕以
胡桃三枚、姜三片，卧时嚼服，即饮汤，复嚼姜、桃如前数，静卧必愈。迈如旨服，旦而痰
消嗽止。洪辑幼子病痰喘，梦观音令服人参胡桃汤，服之而愈。明日剥去皮，喘复作，仍连
皮用，信宿而瘳。盖皮能敛肺也。胡桃、葱白、姜、茶等分，捣煎，能发汗散寒），下而腰
脚虚痛（能补肾），内而心腹诸痛，外而疮肿诸毒（能调中和营），皆可除也。然动风痰，助
肾火（连皮同烧细嚼三枚，能久战），有痰火积热者，少服。油者有毒，故杀虫治疮。壳外
青皮，压油乌髭发。润燥养血去皮用，敛涩连皮用。
Also known as *Mumi* (Wood Honey).
Nature: Moistening. Function: Resolves alcohol toxicity.
Taste: Sweet. Nature: Neutral.
Functions: Relieves thirst and removes irritability, moistens the five zang organs, resolves alcohol toxicity (*Ge Gen* [Puerariae Radix] also resolves alcohol toxicity, but its dispersing action is inferior to that of *Zhi Ju Zi* [Hoveniae Semen]. If a *Zhi Ju* tree grows outside a house, brewing wine inside often yields poor results. Zhao Yide treated cases of alcohol toxicity and heat caused by sexual exhaustion by adding *Ge Gen* to formulas tonifying qi and blood. After one dose causing slight sweating, the patient felt more fatigued and the fever persisted. This indicated that qi and blood were deficient and could not withstand the dispersing nature of *Ge Gen*; only *Zhi Ju* would suffice. Occasionally, dried *Zhi Ju* was added, resulting in a cure. The *Dongpo Collection* records: Yang Yingchen suffered from Xiao Ke [Wasting-Thirst], drinking several dou of water daily and doubling his food intake, with frequent urination. Medicines for Xiao Ke worsened his condition. Physician Zhang Gong diagnosed him, laughing, "You nearly died by mistake." He prescribed pills made from *Shexiang Dangmenzi* [Moschus, central pellet], moistened with wine, swallowed with decoction of *Zhi Ju Zi*. The disease was cured. Asked for the reason, Zhang Gong said: "Xiao Ke and Xiao Zhong [Middle Wasting] result from weak spleen and failed kidney, where earth fails to control water. Your spleen pulse is extremely hot, while the kidney pulse remains strong. This is likely due to excessive consumption of alcohol and fruits, causing accumulated heat in the spleen. Hence, polyphagia and polydipsia lead to polyuria; this is neither true Xiao nor Ke. *Shexiang* neutralizes alcohol and fruit toxins, and *Zhi Ju* overcomes alcohol toxicity; thus, these two substances are borrowed to eliminate the toxin of alcohol and fruit. Lei Xiao stated: 'When using Moschus, the central pellet is especially excellent.'").
Common name: Ji Ju [Chicken Spur], named because the fruit is curved like a chicken's spur. In Shu, it is called Ji Gou. After frost, it turns yellow-red and is very sweet. Its leaves put into wine cause the wine to turn into water.
Tonifies Ming Men [Gate of Vitality]; flesh is moistening, skin is astringent.
Taste: Sweet. Qi/Property: Hot.
Skin is astringent (The skin收敛 lung qi to stop asthma and secures the kidney to arrest essence leakage. It is rarely used in modern medicine; I believe if used, it would surpass Jin Ying Zi [Chrysanthemi Fructus] and Lian Xu [Nelumbinis Plumula]). Flesh is moistening; skin juice is green-black, belongs to Water, enters the Kidney.
Opens Ming Men, benefits San Jiao [Triple Burner], warms the Lung, moistens the intestines, tonifies qi and nourishes blood.
When combined with Bu Gu Zhi [Psoraleae Fructus], one Wood and one Fire, greatly tonifies the Lower Jiao (Walnut belongs to Wood, Po Gu Zhi [Bu Gu Zhi] belongs to Fire, possessing the wonder of Wood generating Fire. Ancient saying: "If Huang Bo [Phellodendri Cortex] lacks Zhi Mu [Anemarrhenae Rhizoma], then Po Gu Zhi lacks Walnut, just as the Water Mother [Jellyfish] cannot exist without the Shrimp." Li Shizhen said: "San Jiao is the distinct envoy of Qi; Ming Men is the root origin of San Jiao. Ming Men refers to the residence, the organ storing essence and connecting to the uterus/bao; San Jiao refers to the region governed, the department of excretion and digestion. One is Substance [Ti], one is Function [Yong]. Its substance is neither fat nor muscle, wrapped in white membrane, located between the two kidneys at the seventh vertebra of the spine, connected to the spine, communicating downward with the two kidneys, upward with the Heart and Lung, and penetrating to the brain. It is the source of life, the birthplace of Ministerial Fire, and the repository of essence and qi. Both humans and animals possess it. Generating humans and all things, all emerge from here. What the *Nei Jing* calls 'beside the seventh vertebra, there is the Small Heart' refers to this. The *Nan Jing* erroneously identified the right kidney as Ming Men. Gao Yangsheng inherited this erroneous Pulse Classic, until Zhu Gong, Chen Yan, and Dai Qizong began to refute it. Kidney and Ming Men communicate, store essence, and detest dryness. Walnut resembles its form. Juice is green-black, thus entering the North [Water element]. Assisting Po Gu Zhi, it moistens dryness and regulates blood, allowing essence and qi to fill internally and blood vessels to flow freely, eliminating various diseases. Male-female intercourse relies on this Ming Huo [Fire of Vitality] to conceive. A person's fortune, longevity, or premature death all root here."
Because San Jiao is unobstructed, it treats:
Upper: Deficient-cold asthma and cough (Can warm Lung and transform phlegm. Hong Mai had chronic phlegm disease. In his later years, facing imperial edicts, he chewed three Walnuts and three slices of Ginger before bed, drank soup, then chewed ginger and walnut again as before, lying quietly ensured cure. Hong Mai followed this advice; by morning, phlegm vanished and cough stopped. Hong's young son suffered from phlegm-asthma, dreamed of Guanyin instructing him to take Ren Shen Hu Tao Tang [Ginseng and Walnut Decoction], which cured him. The next day, after peeling the skin, asthma returned. Using the skin again, he recovered in two nights. Presumably because the skin can astringe Lung qi. Walnut, Cong Bai [Allii Fistulosi Bulbus], Jiang [Zingiberis Rhizoma], and Cha [Camelliae Sinensis Folium] in equal parts, pounded and decocted, can induce sweating and disperse cold.)
Lower: Deficiency-pain in waist and legs (Can tonify Kidney.)
Internal: Various pains in heart and abdomen.
External: Sores, swellings, and various toxins (Can harmonize Ying and Wei [Nutritive and Defensive levels].)
All can be eliminated.
However, it moves Wind-Phlegm and aids Kidney Fire (Chewing three pieces roasted with skin can prolong sexual endurance). Those with Phlegm-Fire and accumulated heat should take little.
Oily ones are toxic, hence used to kill parasites and treat sores.
The green skin outside the shell can be pressed for oil to blacken beard and hair.
For moistening dryness and nourishing blood, use peeled meat. For astringent effects, use with skin.