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Angelica Drink (Sores Formula)

Danggwi-eumja

한글 당귀음자 · Pinyin Dang Gui Yin Zi

當歸飮子

A different prescription from the 當歸飮子 of 濟生方 already registered as danggui-eumja, which is a clinic entry with no 底本 leaf behind it: that version uses 白芍藥 and a different set of dosages. By house rule the clinic entry keeps the bare id and this Bogam leaf takes the chapter tail.

Composition 構成

Danggwi Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

4.8 g
Chief 君

1 don 2 pun
Jeokjagyak Chi Shao
赤芍藥 적작약 · Red Peony

4.8 g
Chief 君

1 don 2 pun
Cheongung Chuan Xiong
川芎 천궁 · Cnidium

4.8 g
Deputy 臣

1 don 2 pun
Saengjihwang Sheng Di Huang
生地黃 생지황 · Raw Rehmannia

4.8 g
Deputy 臣

1 don 2 pun
Bangpung Fang Feng
防風 방풍 · Siler

4.8 g
Deputy 臣

1 don 2 pun
Hyeonggae Jing Jie
荊芥 형개 · Schizonepeta

4.8 g
Deputy 臣

1 don 2 pun
Baekjillyeo Bai Ji Li
白蒺藜 백질려 · Tribulus

4.8 g
Assistant 佐

1 don 2 pun
Hasuo He Shou Wu
何首烏 하수오 · Fleeceflower Root

2.8 g
Assistant 佐

7 pun
Hwanggi Huang Qi
黃芪 황기 · Astragalus

2.8 g
Assistant 佐

7 pun
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

2.8 g
Envoy 使

7 pun
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

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Envoy 使

3 slices

Total g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient 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

Treats scabies and tinea over the whole body with swelling, itching and running pus
One packet cut up and decocted in water with three slices of ginger, and drunk

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

遍身疥癬 — scabies and tinea over the whole body
腫痒流膿 — swelling, itching and running pus

Biomedical correlates

Secondarily infected scabies — historical internal treatment
Widespread eczematous dermatitis with impetiginisation

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治遍身疥癬, 腫痒流膿. 當歸ㆍ赤芍藥ㆍ川芎ㆍ生地黃ㆍ防風ㆍ荊芥ㆍ白蒺藜各一錢二分, 何首烏ㆍ黃芪ㆍ甘草各七分. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑三片, 水煎服. 《入門》

Translation

Treats scabies and tinea over the whole body with swelling, itching and running pus. Angelica root, red peony, chuanxiong, raw rehmannia, saposhnikovia, schizonepeta and tribulus 1 don 2 pun each, fleeceflower root, astragalus and liquorice 7 pun each. Cut them up, make one packet, add three slices of ginger, decoct in water and drink. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Jechang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The one internal prescription in the 疥癬 section that is not a parasiticide at all. It is 四物湯 — angelica, peony, chuanxiong and rehmannia — with the surface drugs saposhnikovia, schizonepeta and tribulus laid over it, and astragalus and fleeceflower root behind. The reasoning is that a 遍身 eruption that itches and weeps is wind in a blood that cannot moisten the skin, so the blood is built up and the wind dispersed rather than the mite attacked. This leaf takes 赤芍藥, the red peony, rather than the white of the standard version, which shifts the formula from nourishing blood toward cooling and moving it — appropriate to a sore that is swollen and running pus. 當歸飮子 is still a prescription in use for chronic itching dermatoses, and of everything in this section it is the entry that transfers most honestly to modern practice. It will not cure scabies, which is a mite and needs permethrin or ivermectin; 腫痒流膿 is secondary bacterial infection and needs an antibiotic. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.