White Dragon Powder for the Ear

Baengnyong-san

한글 백룡산 (이) · Pinyin Bai Long San

白龍散

Not the formula registered as baengnyong-hwan; the names are distinct but adjacent.

Composition 構成

Hansuseok Han Shui Shi
寒水石 한수석 · Glauberite

160 g
Chief 君

calcined (煆), 4 nyang
Ojeokgol Hai Piao Xiao
烏賊骨 오적골 · Cuttlefish Bone

40 g
Deputy 臣

烏賊魚骨
Hwalseok Hua Shi
滑石 활석 · Talc

40 g
Deputy 臣
Bungsa Peng Sha
硼砂 붕사 · Borax

12 g
Deputy 臣

硼砂, 3 don
Gyeongbun Qing Fen
輕粉 경분 · Calomel (toxic)

4 g
Assistant 佐

· toxic
Cheongyu Qing You
淸油 청유 · Clear Sesame Oil

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Envoy 使

香油, mixed to a paste

Total 256 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

Received this formula from your practitioner? Amounts shown here are classical reference values — granule and prepared products differ. Always follow your prescribed dosage and directions.

Actions 效能

Treats sudden severe pain in the ear
worked in on a paper wick

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Sudden severe earache

Biomedical correlates

Acute otitis externa
Earache — external use

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治耳中卒然大痛. 寒水石(煆) 四兩, 烏賊魚骨ㆍ滑石各一兩, 硼砂三錢, 輕粉一錢. 右爲末, 香油調如糊, 以紙撚糝入耳中, 痛立止. 《東垣》

Translation

Treats sudden severe pain within the ear. Glauberite (calcined) 4 nyang; cuttlefish bone and talc 1 nyang each; borax 3 don; calomel 1 don. Powder them, mix with sesame oil to a paste, and work it into the ear on a paper wick — the pain stops at once. — Dongwon 東垣 (Donguibogam · I)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Glauberite at four nyang makes it chiefly a cooling powder, in oil so it stays where it is put. 痛立止 — the pain stops at once — is the claim, and a cold oily paste in an inflamed canal would in fact ease it. **Contains calomel, which is toxic.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.