Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Uihak Jeongjeon (醫學正傳)

Vitex Fruit Powder for the Ear

Manhyeongja-san

한글 만형자산 (이)  ·  Pinyin Man Jing Zi San

蔓荊子散

Composition 構成

Total 44.8 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

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Wind heat in the kidney channel — a hot
  • painful
  • discharging ear

Biomedical correlates

  • Otitis media
  • Otitis externa

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治腎經有風熱, 耳中熱痛出膿汁, 或鳴或聾. 蔓荊子ㆍ赤茯苓ㆍ甘菊ㆍ前胡ㆍ生地黃ㆍ麥門冬ㆍ桑白皮ㆍ赤芍藥ㆍ木通ㆍ升麻ㆍ甘草 各七分. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑 三片, 棗 二枚, 水煎, 食後服. 《正傳》

Translation

Treats wind heat in the kidney channel with the ear hot and painful, discharging pus, and ringing or deaf. Vitex fruit, red poria, chrysanthemum, peucedanum, fresh rehmannia, ophiopogon, mulberry root bark, red peony, akebia, cimicifuga and licorice 7 pun each. Cut up, make one packet, add 3 slices of ginger and 2 jujubes, decoct in water and take after food. — Uihak Jeongjeon 正傳 (Donguibogam · I)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Eleven medicinals at equal small doses, cooling and draining downward. It is the mildest of the discharging-ear formulas and the one for a case that has gone on rather than a new abscess. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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