Formulas · External Application 外用 · Seui Deukhyobang (世醫得效方)

Hollyhock Flower Powder

Gyuhwa-san

한글 규화산 · Pinyin Kui Hua San

葵花散

The transcription writes 欝金, normalized to 鬱金 among the standard 俗字 corrections. 梔子 and 黃栢 are left as the transcription prints them. Bare 葵花 is entered under 蜀葵花, the hollyhock flower, which is the id the corpus uses for 紅葵花 and 黃蜀葵花 elsewhere. All five drugs are 各等分, so none carries a weight.

Composition 構成

Ulgeum Yu Jin
鬱金 울금 · Curcuma Tuber

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Chief 君

equal parts
Hwangnyeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

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Chief 君

equal parts
Hwangbaek Huang Bai
黃柏 황백 · Phellodendron

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Deputy 臣

equal parts
Chija Zhi Zi
梔子 치자 · Gardenia

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Deputy 臣

梔子, equal parts
Chokgyuhwa Shu Kui Hua
蜀葵花 촉규화 · Hollyhock Flower

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Assistant 佐

葵花, the hollyhock flower; equal parts

Total 0 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 5 ingredients 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

Treats every kind of hot sore
Five drugs in equal parts, powdered and mixed to a paste with cold water
Laid on as a plaster

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

一切熱瘡 — hot sores of every kind
A red, burning eruption needing to be cooled from outside

Biomedical correlates

Acute inflammatory dermatitis
Superficial erythematous sores

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治一切熱瘡. 鬱金ㆍ黃連ㆍ黃栢ㆍ梔子ㆍ葵花各等分. 右爲末, 冷水調膏貼之, 神效. 《得效》

Translation

Treats every kind of hot sore. Curcuma, coptis, phellodendron, gardenia and hollyhock flower, in equal parts. Powder the above, mix to a paste with cold water and lay it on; wonderfully effective. — Seui Deukhyobang 得效 (Donguibogam · Jechang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The simplest dressing in the section: five cooling drugs, equal parts, powdered, and mixed with cold water alone — no oil, no fat, no wax. Curcuma, coptis, phellodendron and gardenia are the standard cooling quartet of the chapter's external powders, and hollyhock flower is the demulcent that gives the paste its slip. Mixing with cold water rather than oil is the point. A water paste on a hot eruption cools by evaporation as it dries, and it does not seal the surface the way a lard paste does. For 熱瘡 — a red, burning, non-weeping eruption — that is the right physical choice, and it is the same reasoning behind a modern cooling lotion. Nothing in it is hazardous, and as a short-term cooling application it is harmless. It is not a treatment for anything infected, and a hot spreading eruption with fever is not something to dress and wait on. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.