Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Uihak Gangmok (醫學綱目)

Mole Taking Cake

Chuji-byeong

한글 취지병 · Pinyin Qu Zhi Bing

取痣餠

Composition 構成

Seokhoe Shi Hui
石灰 석회 · Lime (caustic)

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Chief 君

a piece the size of a thumb · caustic
Padu Ba Dou
巴豆 파두 · Croton Seed

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Deputy 臣

three kernels, shelled and ground · toxic
Nami Nuo Mi
糯米 나미 · Glutinous Rice

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Envoy 使

糯米, a hundred grains

Total 0 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 3 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Eats away a black mole so that it falls off of itself

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Black moles

Biomedical correlates

Pigmented naevus

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

糯米百粒, 石灰拇指大, 巴豆三粒去殼硏. 右爲末, 入磁甁同窨三日, 以竹簽挑粟許點上, 自然蝕落. 《綱目》

Translation

A hundred grains of glutinous rice, a piece of lime the size of a thumb, and three croton kernels shelled and ground. Powder them, put them in an earthen bottle and let them cure together for three days; lift out a grain's worth on a bamboo splinter and dot it on, and the mole is eaten away and falls off of itself. — Uihak Gangmok 綱目 (Donguibogam · Pi)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Three ingredients cured together in a sealed jar for three days, which is what makes it work — the lime and the croton oil react on the rice over those days into something caustic enough to take skin off. A grain's worth on a bamboo splinter is the whole dose. **Contains caustic lime and croton. This must not be prepared.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.