Borax Pill

Bungsa-won

한글 붕사원 · Pinyin Peng Sha Yuan

硼砂元

Composition 構成

Hansuseok Han Shui Shi
寒水石 한수석 · Glauberite

100 g
Chief 君

2 nyang 5 don
Bungsa Peng Sha
硼砂 붕사 · Borax

20 g
Chief 君

5 don
Mangcho Mang Xiao
芒硝 망초 · Mirabilite

4 g
Deputy 臣

馬牙硝
Yongnoe Long Nao
龍腦 용뇌 · Borneol

2 g
Assistant 佐

5 pun
Sahyang She Xiang
麝香 사향 · Musk (prohibited)

2 g
Assistant 佐

5 pun · CITES
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

20 g
Envoy 使

5 don, steeped and boiled to a paste for binding

Total 148 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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 sores arising on mouth and tongue and foul breath
melted in the mouth or dusted on

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Mouth and tongue sores with foul breath

Biomedical correlates

Aphthous stomatitis
Halitosis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治口舌生瘡口臭. 寒水石二兩半, 硼砂五錢, 馬牙硝一錢, 龍腦ㆍ麝香各五分. 右爲末, 以甘草五錢浸汁熬膏, 搜和作丸芡實大, 含嚥津下, 或取末敷之. 《直指》

Translation

Treats sores arising on mouth and tongue and foul breath. Glauberite 2 nyang 5 don; borax 5 don; saltpetre crystal 1 don; borneol and musk 5 pun each. Powder them; steep 5 don of licorice, boil the liquid down to a paste and bind with it into pills the size of a fox-nut, to be held in the mouth and the juice swallowed — or take the powder and dust it on. — Jikji 直指 (Donguibogam · Guseol)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Borax and borneol in a licorice lozenge. Borax is mildly antiseptic and the tradition uses it in almost every mouth and throat preparation it has; 3.32's topical powders are built on it. **Musk is from a CITES-listed species.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.