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한글 현령산 · Pinyin Xuan Ling San

玄靈散

繭, the silkworm cocoon, is registered as jamgyeon; the leaf gives seven of them, burnt to ash. The transcription writes the siegesbeckia with 𦻎 for 豨, kept as transcribed; the herb dictionary heads it 豨薟草. The source is printed 《活心》, which is how this transcription gives it; the label is rare in the corpus and may stand for 活人心.

Composition 構成

Huiryeom Xi Xian
稀薟 희렴 · Siegesbeckia

40 g
Chief 君
Jamgyeon Can Jian
蠶繭 잠견 · Silkworm Cocoon

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Deputy 臣

繭七箇(燒灰) — seven cocoons, burnt to ash
Yuhyang Ru Xiang
乳香 유향 · Frankincense

8 g
Assistant 佐

Total 48 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Treats the five eruptions of 癰疽 and every kind of boil and swelling
Taken in good hot wine, three packets one after another, and reckoned effective when a sweat comes

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

五發癰疽 — the five eruptions of abscess
諸般疔腫 — boils and swellings of every kind
魚臍惡瘡 — the fish-navel malign sore
腫毒

Biomedical correlates

Furuncle and carbuncle
Necrotic skin ulcer with a central crater
Cellulitis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治五發癰疽及諸般疔腫ㆍ魚臍惡瘡ㆍ腫毒. 𦻎薟草一兩, 繭七箇(燒灰), 乳香二錢. 右爲末, 每取二錢, 好熱酒調服, 連進三貼, 得汗爲效. 《活心》

Translation

Treats the five eruptions of abscess, boils and swellings of every kind, the fish-navel malign sore, and swelling toxin. Siegesbeckia 1 nyang; seven silkworm cocoons, burnt to ash; frankincense 2 don. Powder the above and take 2 don each time, stirred into good hot wine; take three packets one after another, and a sweat coming is the sign that it has worked. — Hwalsim 活心 (Donguibogam · Ongjeo)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Three ingredients, one of which is an ash. Siegesbeckia carries the formula — it is the chapter's wind-damp and sore drug, used at a full nyang — frankincense moves blood and is the standard addition wherever a swelling is painful, and the cocoon ash is the kind of calcined animal material the tradition reached for when a sore needed sealing. 得汗爲效, a sweat as the sign of success, puts this among the exterior-releasing treatments of the chapter rather than the draining ones: the hot wine is part of the method, not just a vehicle, and the three packets are meant to be taken in quick succession until the sweat comes. 魚臍惡瘡, the fish-navel sore, is the one named lesion worth picturing — a sore with a sunken dark centre and a raised rim, which is how an eschar or a necrotic ulcer looks. The honest reading is that a sweat is not evidence that an abscess has been dealt with, and three doses of anything in hot wine will raise one. A boil with spreading redness, fever or a necrotic centre needs to be looked at. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.