Formulas · External Application 外用 · Uihak Jeongjeon (醫學正傳)

Secretly Transmitted One-Rub Clearance

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한글 비전일찰광 · Pinyin Mi Chuan Yi Ca Guang

秘傳一擦光

Composition 構成

Baekban Bai Fan
白礬 백반 · Alum

24 g
Chief 君

calcined (枯), 6 don
Sasangja She Chuang Zi
蛇床子 사상자 · Cnidium Fruit

20 g
Chief 君

5 don
Gosam Ku Shen
苦參 고삼 · Sophora Root

20 g
Deputy 臣

5 don
Mui Wu Yi
蕪荑 무이 · Elm Fruit Paste

20 g
Deputy 臣

5 don
Unghwang Xiong Huang
雄黃 웅황 · Realgar

10 g
Assistant 佐

2 don 5 pun · arsenic sulfide
Yuhwang Liu Huang
硫黃 유황 · Sulphur

10 g
Assistant 佐

2 don 5 pun
Cheoncho Chuan Jiao
川椒 천초 · Sichuan Pepper

10 g
Assistant 佐

2 don 5 pun
Daepungja Da Feng Zi
大風子 대풍자 · Chaulmoogra Seed

10 g
Assistant 佐

the kernels (大風子肉), 2 don 5 pun · chaulmoogra, toxic
Gyeongbun Qing Fen
輕粉 경분 · Calomel (toxic)

4 g
Envoy 使

calomel, 1 don · mercury
Jangnoe Zhang Nao
樟腦 장뇌 · Camphor

4 g
Envoy 使

camphor, 1 don
Jeoji Zhu Zhi
猪脂 저지 · Lard

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Envoy 使

生猪脂 — raw lard, to work the powder into

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 scabies and tinea and every kind of malign sore, said to be marvellously effective
Powdered and worked up with raw lard, then applied

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

疥癬 — scabies and tinea
諸般惡瘡 — every kind of malign sore

Biomedical correlates

Scabies — historical topical
Tinea corporis — historical topical
Chronic infected dermatitis — historical topical

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治疥癬及諸般惡瘡, 神效. 白礬(枯) 六錢, 蛇床子ㆍ苦參ㆍ蕪荑各五錢, 雄黃ㆍ硫黃ㆍ川椒ㆍ大風子肉各二錢半, 輕粉ㆍ樟腦各一錢. 右爲末, 生猪脂調付. 《正傳》

Translation

Treats scabies and tinea and every kind of malign sore, marvellously effective. Alum (calcined) 6 don, cnidium seed, sophora root and elm fruit 5 don each, realgar, sulphur, Sichuan pepper and chaulmoogra kernels 2 don 5 pun each, calomel and camphor 1 don each. Powder them, work the powder up with raw lard and apply it. — Uihak Jeongjeon 正傳 (Donguibogam · Jechang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The best-reasoned of the scabies rubs in this section, and the one that would most nearly have worked. Sulphur, cnidium seed, sophora root, Sichuan pepper and camphor are all parasiticides or antipruritics of real standing, alum is the astringent, and lard is a proper ointment base that both occludes and carries the drugs into the burrows. A sulphur-in-lard rub is, in substance, the sulphur ointment that was the standard scabies treatment in Western medicine until the middle of the twentieth century. The chaulmoogra kernel is the drug with a genuine history against leprosy, used here for its parasiticidal reputation; the realgar and the calomel are the section's habitual minerals and add nothing the sulphur does not do. **Contains calomel, which is mercury, realgar, which is an arsenic sulfide, and chaulmoogra, which is toxic. This must not be prepared as written.** Camphor is also absorbed through skin and is toxic to infants. Strip the three poisons out and what remains is close to a sulphur ointment, which is still a recognised scabicide — but the formula as it stands is not usable. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.