Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Seui Deukhyobang (世醫得效方)
Honeysuckle Pill
Indong-won
한글 인동원 · Pinyin Ren Dong Yuan
Honeysuckle in any quantity — root, stem, flower, and leaf may all be used — is cut and steeped in wine, then buried overnight in embers of rice chaff and roasted, taken out and dried in the sun; a little licorice is added and the whole pounded and powdered, and the wine in which it was steeped is made into a paste to bind pills the size of parasol-tree seeds. 100 pills with wine or thin rice water. **Note on modern practice: diabetic foot and skin infections require prompt medical care; this entry is recorded for textual interest.**
Composition 構成
- Indong忍冬 인동 · Honeysuckle Vine400 g
Chief 君 root, stem, flower, and leaf all usable; wine-soaked, roasted in chaff embers overnight, sun-dried - Gamcho甘草 감초 · Licorice20 g
Envoy 使 a small amount
Total 420 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
- Prevents the abscesses that follow long wasting-thirst
- Stops the thirst itself along the way
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Preventing abscess in the thirst disease (渴疾須預防發癰疽)
- Long wasting-thirst with heat toxin
- Preventive dosing
Biomedical correlates
- Prevention of infection in diabetes — historical framing
- Chronic inflammatory heat
- Long-course preventive therapy
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
渴疾須預防發癰疽. 忍冬草 不以多少 <span class='sochu'>根莖花葉皆可用</span>. 右剉, 酒浸, 糠火煨一宿, 取出曬乾, 入甘草少許, 搗爲末, 以所浸酒爲糊和丸梧子大. 酒飮任下百丸. 此不特治癰疽, 亦能止渴. 《得效》
Translation
In the thirst disease one must guard against the outbreak of abscess. Honeysuckle, in any quantity <span class='sochu'>— root, stem, flower, and leaf may all be used —</span>. Cut it and steep it in wine, bury it overnight in embers of rice chaff and roast it, take it out and dry it in the sun; add a little licorice, pound and powder it, and make the wine in which it was steeped into a paste to bind pills the size of parasol-tree seeds. Take 100 pills with wine or thin rice water. This not only treats abscess, it can also stop thirst. — Deukhyo 得效 (Donguibogam · Sogal)