Formulas · Warm the Interior 溫裏 · Jikji (直指)

Drawn Blade Powder

Hwaje Chudo-san

한글 화제추도산  ·  Pinyin He Ji Chou Dao San

和劑抽刀散

Composition 構成

Total 849 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 2 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Accumulated cold — stabbing spleen pain of long standing

Biomedical correlates

  • Chronic abdominal pain from cold

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治積冷腹痛. 白薑 五兩, 入巴豆肉 二錢二分半, 同炒黑, 去巴豆. 良薑 五兩, 入斑猫 二十五箇, 同炒黑, 去斑猫. 石菖蒲 五兩(不炒), 糯米 六兩(炒黃). 右爲末, 每二錢, 溫酒調下. 《直指》 有一田夫, 醉飽露宿一枕天明, 自此脾疼攻刺, 百藥罔功, 淹淹數載. 後遇至人, 授以和劑抽刀散, 溫酒調下數服頓愈. 則知風露之根入胃, 良薑ㆍ菖蒲爲能散其邪, 巴ㆍ猫借氣爲能伐其根也. 故有如是之驗焉.

Translation

Treats abdominal pain from accumulated cold. White dried ginger 5 nyang, fried black with 2 don 2 pun 5 ri of croton flesh, the croton then discarded; lesser galangal 5 nyang, fried black with 25 blister beetles, the beetles then discarded; acorus 5 nyang, not fried; glutinous rice 6 nyang, fried yellow. Powder them and take 2 don at a time stirred into warm wine. — Jikji 直指 (Donguibogam · Bok) A farmer, drunk and full, slept a night in the open on a single pillow until daybreak, and from then on had a stabbing spleen pain that a hundred medicines did not touch; he dragged on for several years. Later he met a perfected man who gave him Drawn Blade Powder, and taking it a few times with warm wine he was cured at once. From this one knows that the root of the wind and dew had entered the stomach: galangal and acorus can scatter the evil, and croton and beetle, lending their force, can cut down its root — hence such an effect.

Clinical commentary 臨床

Both toxic agents are fried with the medicinals and then thrown away — 借氣, borrowing their force, as the case says. The farmer who slept out drunk and had a stabbing pain for years afterwards is the kind of history the chapter trusts: one night, and a pain dated from it. **Croton and blister beetle are severely toxic; they are used only as frying agents and discarded.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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