Formulas · External Application 外用 · Dansim (丹心)

Peach Blossom Powder

Dohwa-san

한글 도화산 · Pinyin Tao Hua San

桃花散

Composition 構成

Baekgeup Bai Ji
白及 백급 · Bletilla

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Chief 君

equal parts
Baengnyeom Bai Lian
白斂 백렴 · Ampelopsis Root

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Chief 君

equal parts
Hwangbaek Huang Bai
黃柏 황백 · Phellodendron

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Deputy 臣

equal parts
Hwangnyeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

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Deputy 臣

equal parts
Yuhyang Ru Xiang
乳香 유향 · Frankincense

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Assistant 佐

equal parts
Sahyang She Xiang
麝香 사향 · Musk (prohibited)

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Assistant 佐

equal parts · CITES-listed
Hwangdan Huang Dan
黃丹 황단 · Red Lead (toxic)

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Envoy 使

equal parts · toxic

Total g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 7 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Treats any sore that has long failed to close — dusted onto the sore
Said to raise flesh and level the wound in two or three days

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

一切瘡久不合 — any sore long unclosed

Biomedical correlates

Chronic non-healing wound or ulcer — topical dressing powder

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治一切瘡久不合. 白芨ㆍ白斂ㆍ黃栢ㆍ黃連ㆍ乳香ㆍ麝香ㆍ黃丹各等分. 右極細末, 糝瘡上, 二三日生肌平滿. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats any sore that has long failed to close. Bletilla, ampelopsis root, phellodendron, coptis, frankincense, musk and red lead, in equal parts. Grind them to a very fine powder and dust it on the sore; in two or three days flesh is raised and the wound levels out. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Ongjeo)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Named for its colour: red lead in equal part with the rest gives the powder its peach tint, and the name is a dyer's name, not a claim. Otherwise it is the chapter's standard closing powder — the two binding roots, the two bitter yellows for the surface, frankincense for pain — with musk added, which is what distinguishes it from 斂瘡散 and marks it as the expensive version. 二三日生肌平滿, flesh raised and the wound level in two or three days, is too fast for any wound that has been open long enough to be called 久不合. Granulation takes longer than that. **Contains red lead, which is lead tetroxide and is absorbed from a raw wound surface, and musk, which comes from a CITES-protected deer. This must not be prepared.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.