Fleeceflower Root Powder

Hasuo-san

한글 하수오산 · Pinyin He Shou Wu San

何首烏散

The leaf identifies 蚵蚾草 with an interlinear note, 卽𦻎薟, and the drug is entered under that identification; the herb dictionary heads it 稀薟. The transcriber omitted the ≪≫ around the note, which is restored as an interlinear-note span. 𦻎 is kept for 豨 as transcribed, following the corpus elsewhere.

Composition 構成

Hyeonggae Jing Jie
荊芥 형개 · Schizonepeta

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Chief 君

荊芥穗 — the spikes, equal parts
Wiryeongseon Wei Ling Xian
威靈仙 위령선 · Clematis

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Chief 君

equal parts
Manhyeongja Man Jing Zi
蔓荊子 만형자 · Vitex

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Deputy 臣

equal parts
Huiryeom Xi Xian
稀薟 희렴 · Siegesbeckia

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Deputy 臣

蚵蚾草, which the leaf glosses as 𦻎薟, equal parts
Hasuo He Shou Wu
何首烏 하수오 · Fleeceflower Root

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Deputy 臣

equal parts
Bangpung Fang Feng
防風 방풍 · Siler

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Assistant 佐

equal parts
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

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Envoy 使

equal parts

Total g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 7 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Treats scabies and tinea over the whole body with itching
Equal parts powdered; 2 don at a time stirred into warm wine and drunk

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

遍身疥癬 — scabies and tinea over the whole body
瘙痒 — itching

Biomedical correlates

Generalised pruritus — historical internal treatment
Widespread scabies or eczematous dermatitis — historical internal treatment

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治遍身疥癬瘙痒. 荊芥穗ㆍ威靈仙ㆍ蔓荊子ㆍ蚵蚾草<span class='sochu'>卽𦻎薟</span>ㆍ何首烏ㆍ防風ㆍ甘草各等分. 右爲末, 每取二錢, 溫酒調下. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats scabies and tinea over the whole body with itching. Schizonepeta spikes, clematis root, vitex fruit, 蚵蚾草 — that is, siegesbeckia — fleeceflower root, saposhnikovia and liquorice, equal parts of each. Powder them and take 2 don at a time stirred into warm wine. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Jechang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

A dry powder taken in warm wine, and a wind formula throughout: schizonepeta spikes, clematis, vitex fruit, siegesbeckia and saposhnikovia are all drugs for wind at the surface and in the channels, with fleeceflower root as the one blood-and-essence drug and liquorice to harmonise. The wine is the vehicle because the formula is aimed at the exterior and the wine is held to carry the drugs outward. The leaf is worth noticing for its glossing: 蚵蚾草 is a local plant-name and the compiler stops to say which standard drug it is, 卽𦻎薟 — siegesbeckia. That is the kind of note that makes the Bogam usable, and the same drug is the basis of the 豨薟 preparations used for chronic wind-damp conditions. Read against the disease, this is an antipruritic rather than a cure. Nothing in it kills a scabies mite or a dermatophyte; what it addresses is the itch, and siegesbeckia and clematis both have some anti-inflammatory basis for that. The wine would not help an excoriated, infected skin. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.