Formulas · Expel Worms 驅蟲 · Manbyeong Hoechun (萬病回春)

Chase the Worms Pill

Chuchung-hwan

한글 추충환  ·  Pinyin Zhui Chong Wan

追蟲丸

Composition 構成

Total 79.2 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 4 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Worm accumulation

Biomedical correlates

  • Heavy intestinal parasitosis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

下蟲積. 黑牽牛子頭末 一兩, 大黃 三錢, 使君子肉 二錢, 木香ㆍ檳榔ㆍ蕪荑ㆍ錫灰 各一錢二分. 右爲末, 先將皂角與苦練根皮濃煎二大椀, 熬成膏和丸梧子大. 將沈香末爲衣, 入以雷丸末爲衣. 每五十丸, 空心砂糖水下. 下蟲乃愈. 《回春》

Translation

Brings down worm accumulation. The first sifting of black morning-glory seed 1 nyang; rhubarb 3 don; quisqualis kernels 2 don; costus, areca, elm-fruit paste and tin ash 1 don 2 pun each. Powder them; first decoct gleditsia and chinaberry root bark thick into two large bowls, boil down to a paste and bind into pills the size of a firmiana seed. Coat them with powdered aloeswood, then coat again with powdered omphalia. Take fifty on an empty stomach with sugar water; when the worms come down it is healed. — Manbyeong Hoechun 回春 (Donguibogam · Chung)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Two coatings on one pill — aloeswood first, then omphalia — so that the outer layer meets the worms before the purgative core reaches the bowel. The Hoechun's way of putting the bait on the outside. **Contains morning-glory seed and tin ash, both toxic.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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