Formulas · Stabilize & Astringe 固澀 · Seui Deukhyobang (世醫得效方)

Oyster Shell Powder

Moryeo-san

한글 모려산 · Pinyin Mu Li San

牡蠣散

The Wikisource transcription has 心牿驚瓶 for 心忪驚惕; restored from the Deukhyo.

Composition 構成

Moryeo Mu Li
牡蠣 모려 · Oyster Shell

40 g
Chief 君

calcined (煆)
Mahwanggeun Ma Huang Gen
麻黃根 마황근 · Ephedra Root

40 g
Chief 君
Hwanggi Huang Qi
黃芪 황기 · Astragalus

40 g
Deputy 臣
Jimo Zhi Mu
知母 지모 · Anemarrhena

40 g
Assistant 佐
Busomaek Fu Xiao Mai
浮小麥 부소맥 · Light Wheat

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Envoy 使

light wheat decoction as the draught

Total 160 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Treats constant spontaneous sweating in all kinds of vacuity
worse at night
with wasting
palpitation and fright

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Vacuity of every kind — constant sweating
worse lying at night
with emaciation
palpitation and fright

Biomedical correlates

Chronic hyperhidrosis with debility

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治諸虛不足, 體常自汗, 夜臥則甚, 久不止, 羸瘠枯瘦, 心忪驚惕. 牡蠣(煆)ㆍ麻黃根ㆍ黃芪ㆍ知母各一兩. 右爲末, 浮小麥煎湯調二錢服. 剉之煎服亦可. 《得效》丹溪治自汗方, 防風ㆍ黃芪ㆍ白朮ㆍ牡蠣粉ㆍ麻黃根各等分, 剉, 水煎服之, 亦佳.

Translation

Treats all kinds of vacuity and insufficiency, with the body constantly sweating of itself, worse lying at night, not stopping for long, with emaciation and withering, palpitation and fright. Oyster shell (calcined), ephedra root, astragalus and anemarrhena 1 nyang each. Powder them and take 2 don stirred into a decoction of light wheat; it may also be cut and decocted. — Seui Deukhyobang 得效 (Donguibogam · Jinaek) Danxi's formula for spontaneous sweating — saposhnikovia, astragalus, white atractylodes, oyster shell powder and ephedra root in equal parts, cut and decocted — is also good.

Clinical commentary 臨床

The standing formula for sweating — oyster shell, ephedra root and astragalus are the three every later sweating formula starts from. Anemarrhena for the heat that a long sweat leaves, and light wheat as the draught, which the chapter uses in almost every recipe. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.