Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Jonghaeng (種杏)

Two Horns Drink

Igak-eum

한글 이각음 · Pinyin Er Jiao Yin

二角飮

The two horns of the name are 犀角 and 羚羊角, confirmed from the leaf itself. Neither is decocted: 濃磨 means rubbed down thick against a grinding stone with water, which is how both horns are prepared throughout this corpus, so the preparation gives no weight and the equal-parts instruction carries all of it. 井水, plain well water, has no entry in the herb dictionary — the dictionary's headword is 井華水, well-flower water, which is a different and narrower thing — so it is left in the source text only and not substituted. The transcription writes 黑鲩 and 𠍠; 陷 and 熱 are printed above.

Composition 構成

Seogak Xi Jiao
犀角 서각 · Rhinoceros Horn (prohibited)

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Chief 君

各等分, equal parts, ground thick with well water and the juice taken — CITES Appendix I
Yeongyanggak Ling Yang Jiao
羚羊角 영양각 · Saiga Antelope Horn (prohibited)

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Chief 君

各等分, equal parts, ground thick with well water and the juice taken — saiga antelope horn, CITES

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Actions 效能

Claims to cool a pox that has dried, scorched and sunk black in a child whose body is hot as fire
The two horns rubbed thick on a stone with well water and the juice drunk, not decocted
Credited by the leaf with the power of bringing a child back to life

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Pox scorched and dry, sunk black (痘焦乾黑陷)
Body hot as fire (身熱如火)

Biomedical correlates

Haemorrhagic smallpox with high fever — historical

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治痘焦乾黑陷, 身熱如火. 犀角ㆍ羚羊角各等分, 井水濃磨取汁服, 有回生之功. 《種杏》

Translation

Treats pox scorched and dry and sunk black, with the body hot as fire. Rhinoceros horn and antelope horn, equal parts of each; rub them thick on a stone with well water, take the juice and give it. It has the power of bringing back life. — Jonghaeng 種杏 (Donguibogam · Soa)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Two horns and nothing else, rubbed down in well water until the water is thick with them, for a child whose eruption has dried black and who is burning. In this tradition both horns are the coldest things in the cabinet and both are reached for at the top of a fever, rhinoceros horn for heat that has entered the blood and antelope horn for heat that has reached the liver and brought on convulsions. Giving them together, in equal parts, with no third drug and no decoction, is the gesture of a physician at the end of what he has. The leaf's claim — 有回生之功, it has the power of bringing back life — is not supported. Both horns are keratin, the same protein as hair and fingernail, and the controlled work that has been done on rhinoceros horn finds no antipyretic or other effect beyond that of the protein. There was nothing here to cool a child with haemorrhagic smallpox. **Rhinoceros horn is CITES Appendix I and all international commercial trade in it is banned; the demand recorded in leaves like this one is why every rhinoceros species is now at risk and why two subspecies are already gone. Saiga antelope horn is also CITES-listed, and the saiga population collapsed by roughly ninety-five per cent within a decade in the 1990s, driven largely by the horn trade. Both drugs are pharmacologically inert keratin, so the trade that is emptying these species buys nothing at all. This must not be prepared.** Where this corpus prescribes either horn the honest reading is the same every time, and it is given here once rather than repeated. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.