Formulas · Expel Worms 驅蟲 · Seui Deukhyobang (世醫得效方)

Transform the Worms Powder

Hwachung-san

한글 화충산  ·  Pinyin Hua Chong San

化蟲散

Composition 構成

Total 49 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 3 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Roundworm reversal with pain and drooling from the mouth

Biomedical correlates

  • Ascariasis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治蛔厥, 心腹痛, 口流涎. 雷丸 二箇, 檳榔 二箇, 鶴虱 二錢, 使君子肉 七箇. 右爲末, 入輕粉一字, 分作兩服. 當晩取猪肉一兩切片, 以皂角汁浸一宿, 至曉微火灸熟, 又以香油塗肉, 取一服藥末糝肉上, 空心嚼下. 至午間蟲自下. 《得效》

Translation

Treats roundworm reversal with pain of heart and abdomen and drooling. Omphalia 2, areca 2, carpesium 2 don, quisqualis kernels 7. Powder them, add 1 ja of calomel, and divide into two doses. That evening take 1 nyang of pork cut in slices, steep it overnight in gleditsia water, grill it done over a gentle fire at dawn, brush it with sesame oil, sprinkle one dose of the powder over the meat, and chew it down on an empty stomach. By noon the worms come down of themselves. — Seui Deukhyobang 得效 (Donguibogam · Chung)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The medicine is served on grilled pork, and 14.20.5 says why: the worms are drawn up by the smell of fat meat before the drug reaches them. The bait and the poison in one mouthful. **Contains calomel (mercurous chloride), which is toxic.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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