Formulas · Invigorate Blood 活血祛瘀 · Manbyeong Hoechun (萬病回春)

Frankincense and Fish Glue Decoction

Hyangpyo-tang

한글 향표탕 · Pinyin Xiang Biao Tang

香鰾湯

The sesame seed is named only as what the fish glue is fried with and carries no weight of its own, so it is recorded in the fish glue's prep rather than as a separate row. 薑ㆍ葱各五 gives no unit; the corpus reads ginger in slices and scallion in stalks. The section index at 025a lists this group of formulas under the name 通仙五寶丹 where the leaf heads itself 通聖五寶丹 — see that entry.

Composition 構成

Cheonchogeun Qian Cao Gen
茜草根 천초근 · Madder Root

20 g
Chief 君

茜根
Eopyo Yu Biao
魚鰾 어표 · Isinglass (Fish Swim Bladder)

12 g
Chief 君

fish glue, fried with sesame seed (脂麻) until it beads
Mahwang Ma Huang
麻黃 마황 · Ephedra

20 g
Deputy 臣
Oyak Wu Yao
烏藥 오약 · Lindera

20 g
Deputy 臣
Yuhyang Ru Xiang
乳香 유향 · Frankincense

4 g
Deputy 臣
Seacha Xi Ya Cha
細芽茶 세아차 · Fine Tea Buds

20 g
Assistant 佐

細茶
Goehwa Huai Hua
槐花 괴화 · Pagoda Tree Flower

20 g
Assistant 佐

stir-fried (炒)
Cheoncho Chuan Jiao
川椒 천초 · Sichuan Pepper

20 g
Assistant 佐
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

—
Envoy 使

five slices
Chongbaek Cong Bai
蔥白 총백 · Scallion White

—
Envoy 使

five stalks

Total 136 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

Treats aching of the sinews and bones from the toxin of plum-blossom sores
Divided into two packets, each decocted with five slices of ginger and five scallion stalks
Two or three packets bring the cure

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Sore toxin sunk into the sinews and bones with fixed pain
Blood stasis in the channels of the limbs

Biomedical correlates

Syphilitic periostitis and bone pain — historical treatment

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治楊梅瘡毒筋骨疼痛. 茜根ㆍ麻黃ㆍ烏藥ㆍ細茶ㆍ槐花(炒)ㆍ川椒各五錢, 魚鰾三錢(以脂麻同炒成珠), 乳香一錢. 右剉, 分作二貼, 每一貼, 薑ㆍ葱各五, 水煎服. 二三貼卽愈. 《回春》

Translation

Treats aching of the sinews and bones from the toxin of plum-blossom sores. Madder root, ephedra, lindera, fine tea, pagoda-tree flower (stir-fried) and Sichuan pepper, 5 don each; fish glue 3 don, fried together with sesame seed until it beads; frankincense 1 don. Cut up and divide into two packets; to each packet add five slices of ginger and five stalks of scallion, decoct in water and take. Two or three packets and it is cured. — Hoechun 回春 (Donguibogam · Jechang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Named for its two odd drugs: frankincense and fish glue, the dried swim bladder, fried with sesame seed until it puffs into beads. Fish glue is collagen, and the book uses it where something has to be knitted back together — it appears in the tetanus formulas of the wind chapter in the same way. Around it sit madder root and frankincense to move the blood, pagoda-tree flower to cool it, and ephedra, lindera, Sichuan pepper, ginger and scallion to open the surface and warm the channels so the pain lets go. The complaint is real and specific: the deep, boring, night-worse bone pain of secondary and tertiary syphilis, which comes from periostitis. A warming, blood-moving decoction might blunt that pain for an evening. The promise of cure in two or three packets is the Hoechun's habitual confidence and should not be believed. **Ephedra (麻黃) raises blood pressure and heart rate and is unsafe in heart disease, hypertension and thyroid disease; it is a controlled substance in many jurisdictions.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.