Formulas · Purge Downward 瀉下 · Jikji (直指)

Soul-Returning Life-Chasing Remaking Powder

Banhonchumyeongjaejo-san

한글 반혼추명재조산 · Pinyin Fan Hun Zhui Ming Zai Zao San

返魂追命再造散

The transcription writes 虫 for 蟲 and 晒 for 曬; the corpus forms are printed. The ○ clause is headed 一方 within this leaf rather than standing as a leaf of its own, so it is kept here and is not registered separately; it carries its own source label 本草 against the 直指 of the formula proper. The one-or-two geun of gleditsia spine in the 一方 is a range and no gram figure is entered for it.

Composition 構成

Jogak Zao Jiao
皂角 조각 · Gleditsia Pod

60 g
Chief 君

皂角刺一兩半 — the spine
Daehwang Da Huang
大黃 대황 · Rhubarb

40 g
Deputy 臣

大黃一兩
Ju Jiu
酒 주 · Wine

—
Envoy 使

冷酒 — cold wine as the draught, 二錢 to a dose

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

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Actions 效能

Treats great wind leprosy
Two drugs only — gleditsia spine and rhubarb — purging the worms out
Two don in cold wine
An alternative method uses gleditsia spine alone, nine times steamed and nine times sun-dried

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

大風癩 — great wind leprosy
大風勢重不可救者 — great wind grown so grave it cannot be saved, in the alternative method

Biomedical correlates

Hansen's disease (leprosy) — historical

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治大風癩. 皂角刺一兩半, 大黃一兩. 右爲末, 每二錢, 冷酒調下, 瀉蟲出. 《直指》 ○一方, 治大風勢重不可救者. 皂角刺一二斤, 九蒸九曬, 硏爲末, 食上濃煎大黃湯調下一錢. 一旬鬚髮再生, 肌膚悅潤, 眼明倍常, 其效如神. 《本草》

Translation

Treats great wind leprosy. Gleditsia spine 1 nyang 5 don; rhubarb 1 nyang. Powder the above; two don to a dose stirred into cold wine, and it purges the worms out. — Jikji 直指 ○ Another method treats great wind grown so grave it cannot be saved. Gleditsia spine, one or two geun, nine times steamed and nine times sun-dried, ground to a powder, and 1 don sent down after food in a strong rhubarb decoction. In ten days the beard and hair grow again, the skin becomes glad and smooth, the eyes see twice as clearly as usual, and the effect is like a god's. — Boncho 本草 (Donguibogam · Jechang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Two drugs, and the grandest name in the chapter attached to them. Gleditsia spine at a nyang and a half with rhubarb at a nyang, taken in cold wine, and the object is stated flatly: 瀉蟲出, purge the worms out. It is the same reasoning as Chupung-san and Tongcheonjaejo-san, pared down to its two working drugs. The 一方 appended to it is worth reading for what the chapter was prepared to promise. One or two geun of gleditsia spine, nine times steamed and nine times sun-dried, with a strong rhubarb decoction to carry it, and in ten days the beard grows back and the eyes see twice as well. Against the chapter's own 終無一人免於死 a few leaves earlier, the two statements cannot both be true, and the Bogam prints them side by side without comment. **Contains rhubarb as a purgative, in the 一方 at a strong decoction with up to two geun of gleditsia spine. This must not be prepared.** Repeated purging in a wasted patient is the hazard, and the hair regrowth promised is not a possible effect of either drug. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.