Formulas · Dispel Wind-Damp 祛風濕 · Boncho (本草)

Wine-Boiled Quince Poultice

Jujamogwa-juk

한글 주자모과죽 · Pinyin Jiu Zhu Mu Gua Zhou

酒煮木瓜粥

Composition 構成

Mogwa Mu Gua
木瓜 모과 · Chinese Quince

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Chief 君

one large, boiled soft and ground to a paste
Ju Jiu
酒 주 · Wine

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Envoy 使

half wine and half water, to boil it in

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Actions 效能

Treats tense sinews of leg and knee with pain
applied hot to the painful place

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Sinews tense and painful in leg and knee

Biomedical correlates

Muscle cramp
Calf and knee spasm — external use

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治脚膝筋急痛. 大木瓜, 酒水相和, 煮令爛, 硏作膏, 熱裹痛處, 冷卽易, 一宿三五度便差. 《本草》

Translation

Treats tense sinews of leg and knee with pain. A large quince boiled soft in half wine and half water, ground to a paste and wrapped hot around the painful place; when it cools, change it. Three to five changes in a night and it mends. — Boncho 本草 (Donguibogam · Geun)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Quince is the sinew's medicinal in this tradition — the chapter's simples say 入肝故益筋, it enters the liver and so benefits the sinew — and here it is used as a hot poultice rather than swallowed. Changed as often as it cools, which is what makes it work: the heat is the treatment and the quince carries it. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.