The Daoist's Open the Obstruction Powder

Doin-gaejang-san

한글 도인개장산 · Pinyin Dao Ren Kai Zhang San

道人開障散

Composition 構成

Satoe She Tui
蛇蛻 사퇴 · Snake Slough

20 g
Chief 君

蛇退
Seontoe Chan Tui
蟬退 선퇴 · Cicada Moulting

20 g
Chief 君

蟬退
Nokdu Lu Dou
菉豆 녹두 · Mung Bean

40 g
Deputy 臣

菉豆皮
Hwangryeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

20 g
Deputy 臣

5 don
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

8 g
Envoy 使

2 don

Total 108 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

Treats all obstructing screens

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Screen and obstruction of the eye

Biomedical correlates

Corneal opacity

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治諸障瞖. 蛇退洗焙ㆍ蟬退ㆍ黃連各五錢, 甘草生二錢, 菉豆皮一兩. 右爲麄末, 每二錢, 水煎服, 食後. 《直指》

Translation

Treats all obstructing screens. Snake slough washed and dried over a low fire, cicada slough and coptis 5 don each; raw licorice 2 don; mung bean hulls 1 nyang. Grind to a coarse powder and take 2 don at a time decocted in water, after food. — Jikji 直指 (Donguibogam · An)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Five ingredients and mung bean hulls the heaviest of them — a cheap, cooling, gently detoxifying formula with the two sloughs for the screen. Ground coarse rather than fine, because it is decocted rather than swallowed; the name credits a Daoist, which is how the Jikji marks something it had from outside the medical tradition. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.