Ward Off Wind Paste

Eopung-go

한글 어풍고 · Pinyin Yu Feng Gao

禦風膏

Composition 構成

Pimaja Bi Ma Zi
萆麻子 피마자 · Castor Bean (toxic)

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Chief 君

去殼擣爛, husked and pounded to a mash · toxic

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Actions 效能

Treats a mouth and eye drawn awry in wind strike
Applied to the sound side to draw the face straight

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Mouth and eye drawn awry after wind strike
Facial deviation

Biomedical correlates

Historically used for facial palsy and stroke
Recorded for historical reference only

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

萆麻子, 治中風口眼喎斜. 取子去殼擣爛, 右喎塗左, 左喎塗右. ○一方, 硏塗在手心, 以一盂子置在手心萆麻子上, 用熟水置盂中, 候口眼正則急去之. 左右如上法用. 《本草》名禦風膏

Translation

The castor bean treats a mouth and eye drawn awry in wind strike. Take the seeds, husk them and pound them to a mash: if the deviation is to the right apply it on the left, if to the left apply it on the right. ○ Another method: grind it and spread it on the palm, set a small bowl on the castor paste in the palm, put hot water in the bowl, and as soon as the mouth and eye come straight take it away at once. Left and right as in the method above. It is called Eopung-go. — Boncho 本草 (Donguibogam · Pung)

Clinical commentary 臨床

**This must not be prepared.** The castor seed contains ricin, one of the most toxic substances in the materia medica, and a mash of it held against the skin of the palm or the face is absorbed. The method is the Wind chapter's crossed-sides rule applied topically, and the second version is a small piece of engineering: the paste on the palm under a bowl of hot water, the heat driving the drug in, and the instruction to remove it 急, at once, the moment the face straightens. 口眼喎斜, the mouth and eye drawn awry, is a facial palsy or a stroke, and a face that suddenly droops is a stroke until proved otherwise — the hours after onset are when treatment works. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.