潔淨府简体洁净府

jié jìng fǔ

Cleaning the pure storehouse

Also rendered: cleaning the pure storehouse (Literal; keeps 府 as a building) · draining the bladder (Clinical; names the organ) · cleansing the palace (Over-reads 府 as a palace)

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At a glance

Pinyin: jié jìng fǔ
Simplified: 洁净府
Literal: 潔 clean; 淨 clean, without filth (《說文》 writes 瀞: 無垢薉也); 府 the storehouse — here the bladder, which chapter 8 called 州都之官, the office of the regional capital where fluids are held.
Shuowen: 《說文解字》：絜，麻一耑也（段注：引申為潔淨、修整；「潔」為後起字）；瀞，無垢薉也（「淨」通「瀞」）；府，文書藏也（引申為藏物之所）。

In brief

The lower half of the chapter’s treatment for oedema: drain the bladder. Chapter 8 had already given the bladder its office — 州都之官, the regional capital where fluids gather and are let out by qi transformation. Chapter 14 draws the therapeutic consequence: clean it out. Sweating above and draining below, and then the essence can be taken up in season.

Senses in the classical corpus

To drain the bladder 潔淨府

王冰：「潔淨府，謂瀉膀胱水去也。」

開鬼門，潔淨府 — Suwen 14

The bladder as a storehouse 淨府

即膀胱；第八篇「膀胱者，州都之官，津液藏焉」

潔淨府 — Suwen 14

After which the essence returns 精以時服

水去則精氣得以按時敷布運行

開鬼門，潔淨府，精以時服 — Suwen 14

Occurrences in the classics

Passages where the term does real work, with the original, pinyin and English on the same line.

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素問·湯液醪醴論 Suwen 14 · 湯液醪醴論 Read in context →

歧伯曰：平治於權衡。去宛陳莝，微動四極，温衣繆剌其處，以復其形。開鬼門，潔淨府，精以時服。五陽已布，疏滌五藏，故精自生，形自盛，骨肉相保，巨氣乃平。岐伯曰：平治于权衡。去宛陈莝，微动四极，温衣缪刺其处，以复其形。开鬼门，洁净府，精以时服。五阳已布，疏涤五藏，故精自生，形自盛，骨肉相保，巨气乃平。

qí bó yuē: píng zhì yú quán héng. qù wǎn chén cuò, wēi dòng sì jí, wēn yī miù cì qí chù, yǐ fù qí xíng. kāi guǐ mén, jié jìng fǔ, jīng yǐ shí fú. wǔ yáng yǐ bù, shū dí wǔ zàng, gù jīng zì shēng, xíng zì shèng, gǔ ròu xiāng bǎo, jù qì nǎi píng.

Qibo says: level it by weighing. Remove the stasis and cut away the old, stir the four extremities gently, warm the clothing, and needle the place by contralateral puncture, so as to restore the frame. Open the ghost gate, clean the pure storehouse, and the essence will be taken up in season. Once the five yang have been distributed and the five storing organs flushed, the essence generates itself, the frame fills itself, bone and flesh keep one another, and the great qi is at last level.

王冰：「潔淨府，謂瀉膀胱水去也。」與上句「開鬼門」對舉：上發其汗、下泄其水。第八篇「膀胱者，州都之官，津液藏焉，氣化則能出矣」可與本句互證。

Compounds built on this term

潔

jié

clean

說文作「絜」：麻一耑也；引申為潔淨

淨

jìng

clean, without filth

說文作「瀞」：無垢薉也

府

fǔ

storehouse

說文：文書藏也；醫籍指膀胱等「府」

膀胱

páng guāng

the bladder

第八篇：州都之官，津液藏焉，氣化則能出矣

州都之官

zhōu dū zhī guān

the office of the regional capital

第八篇十二官之一

How it has been translated

Every rendering below is a decision about which reader is being addressed. There is no neutral option.

Common English	cleanse the bladder	Accurate and the usual choice.
This site	cleaning the pure storehouse	府 is the word the book uses for the bladder's office, and 淨 is an adjective the text applies to it. Naming the bladder is right in sense, but it loses the connection to chapter 8's 州都之官 — and that connection is exactly the one a reader of this chapter should make: the same organ, named as an office there and as a storehouse here, and in both places defined by what it holds and lets go.

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