Formulas · Stabilize & Astringe 固澀 · Uihak Jeongjeon (醫學正傳)

Cut Off the Red Pill

Jeonhong-won

한글 단홍원  ·  Pinyin Duan Hong Yuan

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Composition 構成

Total 304 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 3 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Intestinal wind — persistent rectal bleeding

Biomedical correlates

  • Rectal bleeding

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治腸風. 蝟皮(燒)ㆍ黃連(炒)ㆍ秦艽ㆍ槐角子 各一兩, 當歸ㆍ檳榔ㆍ皂角仁(燒)ㆍ黃栢ㆍ荊芥穗ㆍ枳殼 各五錢, 大黃(煨)ㆍ桃仁泥 各三錢. 右爲末, 麪糊和丸梧子大, 白湯下五十丸. 血多加棕櫚ㆍ蓮房灰 各五錢. 《正傳》

Translation

Treats intestinal wind. Hedgehog skin (burnt), coptis (stir-fried), gentiana macrophylla and sophora fruit 1 nyang each; angelica, areca, gleditsia seed (burnt), phellodendron, schizonepeta spike and bitter orange 5 don each; rhubarb (roasted) and peach kernel paste 3 don each. Powder them, bind with flour paste into pills the size of a firmiana seed, and take fifty with plain hot water. Where the bleeding is heavy add palm fibre and lotus receptacle ash 5 don each. — Uihak Jeongjeon 正傳 (Donguibogam · Huieum)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Palm fibre and lotus receptacle, both burnt to ash, are the tradition's charred astringents for a heavy bleed, and the Jeongjeon adds them only where the bleeding calls for it. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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