Formulas · Dispel Wind 祛風 · Dongwon (東垣)

Brighten the Eyes Asarum Decoction

Myeongmok-sesin-tang

한글 명목세신탕  ·  Pinyin Ming Mu Xi Xin Tang

明目細辛湯

Composition 構成

Total 30 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 2 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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

  • Tight lid margins with inturned lashes
  • Wind damp with static blood in the lid

Biomedical correlates

  • Cicatricial entropion
  • Chronic blepharitis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治同上. 羌活ㆍ麻黃根 各一錢半, 防風 一錢, 荊芥 七分, 藁本ㆍ白茯苓ㆍ當歸梢 各五分, 生地黃ㆍ蔓荊子ㆍ川芎 各三分, 桃仁 五箇, 川椒 四箇, 細辛ㆍ紅花 各二分. 右剉作一貼, 水煎服. 《東垣》

Translation

Treats the same as above. Notopterygium and ephedra root 1 don 5 pun each; saposhnikovia 1 don; schizonepeta 7 pun; ligusticum, poria and the tips of Korean angelica 5 pun each; raw rehmannia, vitex and chuanxiong 3 pun each; five peach kernels; four Sichuan pepper grains; asarum and carthamus 2 pun each. Cut up as one packet and decoct in water. — Dongwon 東垣 (Donguibogam · An)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The same indication as the formula above treated the other way — fourteen medicinals instead of five, with ephedra root to stop the lid weeping and peach kernel and carthamus for the blood congealed in it. Set the two side by side and they show Dongwon's range on one complaint: relax it, or open and move it. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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