寶鑑Bogam

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Seven-Ingredient Tiger Head Pill

Chilmulhodu-won

한글 칠물호두원  ·  Pinyin Qi Wu Hu Tou Yuan

七物虎頭元

虎頭骨 is registered under 虎骨, as 虎脛骨 is elsewhere on this site, with the part named in the prep. 熔 and 呑 are printed in the forms the corpus uses; the source label 寳鍳 is given as 寶鑑.

Composition 構成

Total 340 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

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Pestilence to be warded off and demons killed (辟瘟殺鬼)
  • Every kind of epidemic qi (一切疫氣)
  • An outbreak in the neighbouring country, with transmission to be prevented

Biomedical correlates

  • Prevention of epidemic illness — historical amulet, fumigant and prophylactic pill
  • Household contact prophylaxis during an outbreak

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

辟瘟殺鬼, 除一切疫氣. 虎頭骨ㆍ朱砂ㆍ雄黃 各一兩半, 鬼臼ㆍ皂莢ㆍ蕪荑ㆍ雌黃 各一兩. 右爲末, 熔蠟和丸彈子大, 以紅絹袋盛一丸, 繫男左女右臂上, 又懸屋四角. 如値近境疫作, 晦望夜半, 各家當戶燒一丸, 晨起各人呑下小豆大一丸, 則不致傳染. 《寶鑑》

Translation

Wards off pestilence, kills demons and removes every kind of epidemic qi. Tiger head bone, cinnabar and realgar 1 nyang 5 don each; dysosma rhizome, gleditsia pod, elm fruit paste and orpiment 1 nyang each. Powder the above, bind with melted beeswax into pills the size of a bullet, put one pill in a red silk bag and tie it to the arm — the left for a man, the right for a woman — and hang others at the four corners of the house. If an epidemic breaks out in the country nearby, then at midnight on the last and the fifteenth day of the month each household burns one pill facing the door, and on rising in the morning each person swallows one pill the size of an adzuki bean; then the infection will not be taken. — Bogam 寶鑑 (Donguibogam · On)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Seven drugs and four separate ways of using them. Tiger head bone, cinnabar and realgar at a nyang and a half each, with dysosma, gleditsia pod, elm fruit paste and orpiment behind them, melted into beeswax and rolled into bullet-sized pills. One pill goes in a red bag on the arm, left for a man and right for a woman; more hang at the four corners of the house; when an outbreak reaches the next district each household burns one at the door at midnight on the dark and the full of the moon. The last instruction is the one that matters, and it is the one that separates this leaf from the amulets around it: on rising, each person swallows an adzuki-sized pill. That makes a household prophylactic out of two arsenic sulfides and a mercury sulfide taken daily for as long as the epidemic lasts. The chapter elsewhere keeps its minerals outside the body — worn, hung, burnt, or painted in the nostril — and the honest reading of this one is that it did not. **Contains cinnabar, which is mercuric sulfide, realgar and orpiment, which are arsenic sulfides, dysosma, which is toxic, and tiger bone, which is prohibited under CITES. The daily swallowed pill is a cumulative arsenic and mercury dose and this must not be prepared or taken under any circumstances.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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