Formulas · Expel Worms 驅蟲 · Gogeum Uigam (古今醫鑑)
Bring Down the Worms Powder
Hachung-san
한글 하충산 · Pinyin Xia Chong San
下蟲散
Composition 構成
- Sagunja使君子 사군자 · Rangoon Creeper Fruit4 g
Chief 君the kernels
- Binrang檳榔 빈랑 · Areca Seed4 g
Chief 君 - Daehwang大黃 대황 · Rhubarb2 g
Deputy 臣 - Goryeongeunpi苦練根皮 고련근피 · Chinaberry Root Bark (toxic)—
Envoy 使苦練根, decocted as the vehicle
Total 10 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.
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Actions 效能
- Treats the various worms within the abdomen
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- The various worms within the abdomen
Biomedical correlates
- Intestinal parasitosis
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治腹內諸蟲. 使君子肉ㆍ檳榔 各一錢, 大黃 五分. 右爲末, 以苦練根煎湯調下. 《醫鑑》
Translation
Treats the various worms within the abdomen. Quisqualis kernels and areca 1 don each; rhubarb 5 pun. Powder them and take stirred into a decoction of chinaberry root bark. — Gogeum Uigam 醫鑑 (Donguibogam · Chung)
Clinical commentary 臨床
Three medicinals in the powder and a fourth in the cup — the three vermifuges the modern pharmacopoeia kept (quisqualis, areca, chinaberry bark) with rhubarb to carry them out. The chapter's most usable formula. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.