Formulas · Transform Phlegm 化痰 · Uiseol (醫說)

Dripped Oil Powder

Jeogyu-san

한글 적유산 · Pinyin Di You San

滴油散

Composition 構成

Banghap Bang Ge
蚌蛤 방합 · Freshwater Mussel

20 g
Chief 君

clam shell powder, dry-fried on a new tile until red through and set on the ground to let the fire toxin out
Cheongdae Qing Dai
靑黛 청대 · Natural Indigo

4 g
Deputy 臣
Jejeup Ji Zhi
虀汁 제즙 · Sour Pickle Brine

—
Envoy 使

a little of the thin brine (淡虀水)
Cheongyu Qing You
淸油 청유 · Clear Sesame Oil

—
Envoy 使

a few drops of sesame oil

Total 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 phlegm cough with the face swollen like a platter

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Phlegm cough with facial puffiness

Biomedical correlates

Productive cough with facial oedema

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治痰嗽, 面浮如盤. 蚌粉(新瓦上炒令通紅, 放地上出火毒) 每半兩, 加靑黛一錢, 以淡虀水滴入麻油數點調服, 卽愈. 《醫說》

Translation

Treats phlegm cough with the face swollen like a platter. Clam shell powder, dry-fried on a new tile until it is red through and then set on the ground to let the fire toxin out, half a nyang at a time, with 1 don of indigo added; give it stirred into thin brine with a few drops of sesame oil dripped in, and the patient is cured at once. — Uiseol 醫說 (Donguibogam · Haesu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

面浮如盤 — the face swollen like a platter — is the sign that picks this formula out: puffiness of the face in a patient with a productive cough. A modern reader will think of the facial oedema of cor pulmonale or of superior vena caval obstruction, and the Bogam reaches for calcined shell, which is lime, with indigo for the heat. 放地上出火毒 — set on the ground to let the fire toxin out — is a standard step after calcining, and the oil and brine are there to make a dose of chalk swallowable. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.