Mi Jian Dao Fa

Mi Jian Dao Fa (Honey Brew Formula) is the thickened-honey enema given in Line 233 of the Shang Han Lun for hard stool from exhausted liquid and humor in yáng brightness disease with spontaneous sweating, used once the patient desires to defecate rather than attacking with precipitation. The line text reads 蜜煎导; the book heads the formula mì jiān fāng (蜜煎方).

Source: Mitchell C, Feng Y, Wiseman N. Shang Han Lun: On Cold Damage, Translation & Commentaries. Paradigm Publications, 1999, pp. 354–355.

(1) Place the above ingredient in a copper pot. Cook it with a mild flame. It must congeal to a form like malt sugar; stir to prevent it from burning and sticking [to the pot]. (2) [Wait until the consistency is correct] to form a pill, then roll it [into] a finger-like shape, leaving a sharp head, so that it is the size of a finger and about two cùn long. It is urgent to use it while hot, as it will harden when cold. (3) Insert into the grain tract and hold [the buttocks closed] with the hand, releasing [the buttocks] when [the person] is about to defecate. (4) It is doubted that this is [Zhāng] Zhòng Jǐng's formula, [but] it proves to be very effective. (Mitchell, Feng & Wiseman 1999, pp. 354–355, Line 233)