Formulas · Tonify Blood 補血 · Uihak Gangmok (醫學綱目)

Clamshell Powder Pill

Hapbun-hwan

한글 합분환 · Pinyin Ge Fen Wan

蛤粉丸

Composition 構成

Jeogan Zhu Gan
猪肝 저간 · Pig Liver

80 g
Chief 君

a slice of about 2 nyang, split open to hold one pill, tied with hemp thread and boiled in a bowl of water
Hapbun Ge Fen
蛤粉 합분 · Clamshell Powder

10 g
Chief 君

equal part
Hwangrap Huang La
黃蠟 황랍 · Beeswax

10 g
Envoy 使

equal part

Total 100 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Treats sparrow eye

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Sparrow eye — sight failing at dusk

Biomedical correlates

Night blindness
Vitamin A deficiency

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治雀目. 蛤粉ㆍ黃蠟等分, 熔蠟搜粉爲丸如棗大. 猪肝一片二兩許, 批開褁藥一丸, 麻線纏, 水一椀煮熟, 取出, 乗熱熏眼, 至溫吃肝, 以愈爲度. 《綱目》

Translation

Treats sparrow eye. Clamshell powder and yellow beeswax in equal parts; melt the wax to take up the powder and make pills the size of a jujube. Take a slice of pig's liver of about 2 nyang, split it open and wrap one pill inside, tie it with hemp thread, and boil it in a bowl of water until done; take it out and let the steam play on the eye while it is hot, and when it has cooled to warm, eat the liver. Continue until cured. — Uihak Gangmok 綱目 (Donguibogam · An)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The method is the medicine. A waxed pill is sealed inside a slice of pig's liver, boiled, the steam held to the eye, and the liver then eaten — and the liver is the part that works, since night blindness is vitamin A deficiency and liver is the richest source of it. One of the few formulas in this chapter whose effect is not in doubt. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.