Formulas · External Application 外用 · Manbyeong Hoechun (萬病回春)

Swept Clean at One Stroke

Ilsogwang

한글 일소광 · Pinyin Yi Sao Guang

一掃光

同硏細 covers the tea and the quicksilver only and is set in parentheses after their shared weight. 細茶 is entered under 細芽茶 and 牙皂 under 皂角, following the corpus. 虱 is left as the transcription prints it.

Composition 構成

Sueun Shui Yin
水銀 수은 · Mercury (toxic)

4 g
Chief 君

水銀, ground fine together with the tea · quicksilver, toxic
Jogak Zao Jiao
皂角 조각 · Gleditsia Pod

8 g
Deputy 臣

牙皂
Seacha Xi Ya Cha
細芽茶 세아차 · Fine Tea Buds

4 g
Deputy 臣

細茶, fine tea leaf, ground fine together with the quicksilver
Cheoncho Chuan Jiao
川椒 천초 · Sichuan Pepper

8 g
Assistant 佐

Total 24 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

Received this formula from your practitioner? Amounts shown here are classical reference values — granule and prepared products differ. Always follow your prescribed dosage and directions.

Actions 效能

Treats head sores in children, and sores made by scratching where lice are many, with pus and water that will not stop
The tea and the quicksilver are ground fine together, then the gleditsia and pepper powdered in
Worked up with oil and rubbed on

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

小兒頭瘡 — head sores in children
多虱子瘙痒成瘡, 膿水不止 — heavy louse infestation, scratched into sores that run pus and water

Biomedical correlates

Pediculosis capitis with secondary impetigo
Infected scalp eczema in children

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治小兒頭瘡, 及多虱子瘙痒成瘡, 膿水不止. 細茶ㆍ水銀各一錢(同硏細), 牙皂ㆍ川椒各二錢. 右爲末, 油調擦上. 《回春》

Translation

Treats head sores in children, and sores made by scratching where lice are many, with pus and water that will not stop. Fine tea and quicksilver, 1 don of each (ground fine together); gleditsia tooth-pods and Sichuan pepper, 2 don of each. Powder the above, work it up with oil and rub it on. — Hoechun 回春 (Donguibogam · Jechang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The tea is a grinding medium. Rubbing metallic quicksilver with a dry leaf powder breaks the globules up into something that will take up oil — the same trituration trick that 松脂貼散 does with saliva, done here with tea instead. Gleditsia pods are saponin-bearing and would lather in the oil; Sichuan pepper is the acrid insecticide. The indication is louse infestation of a child's scalp scratched into weeping sores — 多虱子 is explicit — and the name promises to sweep it clean at one stroke. Gleditsia saponins and pepper would have had some real effect on the lice. **Contains quicksilver, rubbed into the broken scalp of a child. Mercury is absorbed through abraded skin and the scalp is well supplied with blood; children absorb more and tolerate far less. This must not be prepared.** Head lice are treated with a topical insecticide or wet combing, and the secondary impetigo with an antibiotic. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.