Formulas · Release the Exterior 解表 · Bogam (寶鑑)

Seven-Ingredient Red Powder

Chilmuljeok-san

한글 칠물적산 · Pinyin Qi Wu Chi San

七物赤散

丹砂 is registered under 朱砂 and 羊躑躅 under 躑躅花, of which it is the same flower. The source label 寳鍳 is given as 寶鑑 and 温 as 溫.

Composition 構成

Jusa Zhu Sha
朱砂 주사 · Cinnabar (toxic)

40 g
Chief 君

as 丹砂, 另硏, ground separately — cinnabar, mercuric sulfide, toxic
Cheono Chuan Wu
川烏 천오 · Aconite Main Root

40 g
Chief 君

炮, roasted — aconite, toxic
Gwarugeun Gua Lou Gen
瓜蔞根 과루근 · Trichosanthes Root

30 g
Deputy 臣
Sesin Xi Xin
細辛 세신 · Asarum

20 g
Assistant 佐
Cheokchokhwa Zhi Zhu Hua
躑躅花 척촉화 · Rhododendron Flower (toxic)

20 g
Assistant 佐

as 羊躑躅 — rhododendron, toxic
Geongang Gan Jiang
乾薑 건강 · Dried Ginger

20 g
Assistant 佐

炮, roasted
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

20 g
Assistant 佐

炒, stir-fried

Total 190 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

Wards off the poisonous qi of pestilence
Taken in warm wine to raise a sweat, the sweat resolving the illness
The dose doubled if the first does not resolve it

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

The poisonous qi of pestilence (瘟疫毒氣)
Epidemic illness that has not yet been released by sweating

Biomedical correlates

Epidemic febrile illness — sweating therapy
Prevention of epidemic illness

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

辟瘟疫毒氣. 丹砂(另硏)ㆍ川烏(炮) 各一兩, 瓜蔞根七錢半, 細辛ㆍ羊躑躅ㆍ乾薑(炮)ㆍ白朮(炒) 各五錢. 右爲末, 每服半錢, 溫酒調服, 汗出解. 若不解, 增至一錢服. 《寶鑑》

Translation

Wards off the poisonous qi of pestilence. Cinnabar (ground separately) and chuanwu aconite (roasted) 1 nyang each; trichosanthes root 7 don 5 fun; asarum, rhododendron flower, dried ginger (roasted) and white atractylodes (stir-fried) 5 don each. Powder the above and take 5 fun at a dose, stirred into warm wine; when the sweat comes it is resolved. If it is not resolved, increase to 1 don a dose. — Bogam 寶鑑 (Donguibogam · On)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The red of the name is the cinnabar, a full nyang of it ground separately, matched by a nyang of roasted chuanwu aconite; then trichosanthes root, asarum, rhododendron flower, roasted ginger and stir-fried white atractylodes. Five fun in warm wine at a dose, doubled if the first does not work. Unlike the amulets and fumigants it sits among, this one is swallowed, and it is a sweating formula: aconite and dried ginger drive the sweat, asarum and rhododendron open the exterior, and the trichosanthes root is the one drug in it that answers the heat and the thirst. The sweat is the stated endpoint, which puts it in the same tradition as the cold-damage sweating powders rather than with the warding charms, and the chapter has placed it here only because it carries the word 辟 in its indication. **Contains cinnabar, which is mercuric sulfide, chuanwu aconite, which is cardiotoxic, and rhododendron flower, which is a grayanotoxin-bearing plant. All three are swallowed in this formula and it must not be prepared.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.