Hoechun Ward Off Evil Elixir

This is Chilmulhodu-won 七物虎頭元 with one substitution and one addition. Tiger head bone, cinnabar, realgar, dysosma, elm fruit paste and orpiment are the same six; the gleditsia pod of the older formula is replaced by the winged euonymus twig, and veratrum is added, which makes eight. The weights are flattened too — two nyang of tiger head bone and a nyang of everything else, where the Bogam formula graded the first three at a nyang and a half. Same honey binding, same bullet-sized pill, same bag on the left arm of a man and the right of a woman. It is not swallowed, and that is the difference from its parent. One pill is worn and another is burnt inside the door of the room where the sick person lies, which puts the pharmacology into the smoke and the amulet. Two indications follow the method rather than preceding it, which is why the leaf has no 治 clause: a woman having intercourse with a demon, and pestilence to be warded off. The first of these the chapter treats as a condition in its own right, and the Hoechun answers it with the materials it uses against demons generally rather than with anything specific to it; the night-time experiences gathered under that name can be read, cautiously, as sleep paralysis and hypnagogic hallucination, but the chapter's own frame should be left standing. **Contains tiger bone, which is prohibited under CITES, cinnabar, which is mercuric sulfide, realgar and orpiment, which are arsenic sulfides, veratrum, a violent emetic and cardiotoxin, and dysosma. Burning arsenic and mercury sulfides in a closed room drives their vapour into the air a sick person is breathing, and this must not be prepared.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.