Ginger and Scorpion Powder

Ganghyeol-san

한글 강헐산 · Pinyin Jiang Xie San

薑蝎散

Composition 構成

Jeongal Quan Xie
全蠍 전갈 · Scorpion (toxic)

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Chief 君

49, tails off, washed and baked — for the wind heat · toxic
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

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Chief 君

49 slices cut to the size of the scorpions — for the phlegm
Ju Jiu
酒 주 · Wine

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Envoy 使

wine, taken at a draught in the evening

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

Treats deafness from kidney vacuity of less than ten years' standing — healed at one dose

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Kidney vacuity deafness of under ten years

Biomedical correlates

Hearing loss

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治耳聾因腎虛所致, 十年內者一服愈. 全蝎四十九箇(去梢洗焙)去風熱, 生薑切片如蝎大四十九片開痰. 右二味銀石器內炒乾爲細末, 向夕勿食, 夜臥酒調作一服, 至二更以來徐徐盡量飮, 五更耳中聞蝦蟇笙響, 自此聞聲. 《三因》

Translation

Treats deafness caused by kidney vacuity, and one of under ten years' standing is healed at a single dose. Scorpion 49, tails removed, washed and baked to remove the wind heat; fresh ginger cut into 49 slices the size of the scorpions to open the phlegm. Fry the two dry in a silver or stone vessel and powder finely; eat nothing that evening, and at bedtime stir it into wine as a single dose, drinking it slowly and to the full from the second watch on. At the fifth watch a sound like frogs and reed pipes is heard in the ear, and from then on one hears. — Samin 三因 (Donguibogam · I)

Clinical commentary 臨床

五更耳中聞蝦蟇笙響 — at the fifth watch a sound of frogs and pipes in the ear. Two ingredients, each with its reason given in the text, taken through the night, and the sound is the sign that it is working. **Contains scorpion, which is toxic.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.