Formulas · Purge Downward 瀉下 · Samin (三因)

Cock-Crow Powder

Gyemyeong-san

한글 계명산 · Pinyin Ji Ming San

雞鳴散

二七粒 is fourteen seeds, a count rather than a weight, so no grams are entered for the peach kernel.

Composition 構成

Daehwang Da Huang
大黃 대황 · Rhubarb

20 g
Chief 君

wine-steamed (酒蒸)
Danggwi Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

12 g
Deputy 臣

tails (當歸尾)
Doin Tao Ren
桃仁 도인 · Peach Kernel

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Assistant 佐

fourteen seeds (二七粒), ground

Total 32 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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

Brings down congealed stagnant blood after a blade wound or a blow, given at cockcrow
Also treats fractures

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Blade wound or injury from blows, with the blood stagnant and congealed into a mass, and agitated oppression to the point of fainting away
Fractures

Biomedical correlates

Haematoma after blunt or penetrating trauma
Fracture with soft-tissue bleeding

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治金刃傷ㆍ打撲傷, 血瘀凝積, 煩悶欲絶. 大黃(酒蒸) 五錢, 當歸尾三錢, 桃仁二七粒(硏). 右剉作一貼, 酒煎, 雞鳴時服, 次日下瘀血卽愈. 治折傷亦妙. 《三因》

Translation

Treats blade wounds and injury from blows, with the blood stagnant and congealed into a mass and agitated oppression to the point of fainting away. Rhubarb (wine-steamed), 5 don; angelica sinensis tails, 3 don; peach kernel, fourteen seeds, ground. Cut as one packet, decoct in wine, and take it at cockcrow; the next day the stagnant blood comes down and it mends. It is also excellent for fractures. — Samin 三因 (Donguibogam · Jesang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The smallest of the chapter's purging formulas and the one with the clearest design. Rhubarb steamed in wine is milder and more blood-moving than raw rhubarb; angelica tails move rather than nourish; peach kernel breaks the clot. Fourteen seeds and three drugs, decocted in wine and given at cockcrow so that the stool comes in the morning — the name is nothing more than the dosing time. Read as a bruise treatment in an otherwise well patient this is reasonable and mild, and it is the one formula here that could be given without much risk. Read as the chapter reads it — 煩悶欲絶, agitation and oppression to the point of fainting away — it is being given to someone in shock, and the pallor and air hunger of blood loss are not relieved by moving the bowels. The claim that it is 亦妙 for fractures is a claim about bruising around the break, not about the bone. **Rhubarb is a purgative and should not be given to a patient who may be bleeding internally.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.