Formulas · Regulate Qi 理氣 · Manbyeong Hoechun (萬病回春)
Numbness to the Bone Formula
Magol-bang
한글 마골방 · Pinyin Ma Gu Fang
The Bogam names this entry 麻骨方 in the Numbness section's list of treatments; the transcription writes the second method's medicinal 練子 for 楝子.
Composition 構成
- Insi人屎 인시 · Human Faeces—
Chief 君人糞, burnt to ash
- Cheollyeonja川楝子 천련자 · Toosendan Fruit—
Chief 君練子, burnt to ash, 3 to 5 don a dose, in the second method
- Dubu豆腐 두부 · Bean Curd—
Envoy 使the soy liquor
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Actions 效能
- Treats numbness running from the head to the pit of the heart
- or from the sole to the knee
- which is fatal
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Ascending or descending numbness with collapse
Biomedical correlates
- Acute ascending paralysis
- Severe acute neuropathy
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
有自頭麻至心窩而死者, 或自足心麻至膝盖而死者. 人糞燒灰, 用豆腐漿調飮, 卽止. ○又方, 用練子燒灰爲末, 每服三五錢, 黃酒調下, 卽止. 《回春》
Translation
There are cases where numbness runs from the head down to the pit of the heart and the patient dies, or from the sole of the foot up to the knee and dies. Human faeces burnt to ash, stirred into soybean liquor and drunk, stops it at once. Another formula: toosendan fruit burnt to ash and powdered, 3 to 5 don a dose stirred into yellow wine, stops it at once. — Manbyeong Hoechun 回春 (Donguibogam · Pi)