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Ginger and Ink Pill

Gangmeok-hwan

한글 강묵환 · Pinyin Jiang Mo Wan

薑墨丸

Composition 構成

Geongang Gan Jiang
乾薑 건강 · Dried Ginger

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Chief 君

stir-fried; equal parts
Songyeonmuk Song Yan Mo
松烟墨 송연묵 · Pine-Soot Ink

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Deputy 臣

calcined; equal parts
Baengmyeon Bai Mian
白麪 백면 · White Wheat Flour

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Envoy 使

vinegar-boiled wheat paste for the pills

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 red and white dysentery
Treats the worm-curse dysentery

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Cold damp dysentery with mixed discharge
Chronic dysentery with bleeding

Biomedical correlates

Chronic dysentery
Amoebic colitis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治赤白痢及蠱疰痢. 乾薑(炒)ㆍ松烟墨(煆). 右等分爲末, 醋煮麵糊和丸梧子大, 空心, 米飮下三五十丸, 日三服. 《入門》

Translation

Treats red and white dysentery, and the worm-curse dysentery. Stir-fried dried ginger and calcined pine-soot ink, equal parts. Powder, make pills with vinegar-boiled wheat paste the size of a paulownia seed, and take thirty to fifty on an empty stomach in rice water, three times a day. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Writing ink as a drug. Pine-soot ink is lampblack bound with glue, so what the patient swallows is finely divided carbon — and activated charcoal is still given for diarrhoea and for binding toxins in the gut. Of all the surprising materials in this chapter this is the one whose mechanism modern practice has most clearly vindicated, though the tradition reached it by way of the ink's blackness answering the black of a bloody stool. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.