Formulas · External Application 外用 · Jikji (直指)

Wondrous Victory Powder

Myoseung-san

한글 묘승산 · Pinyin Miao Sheng San

妙勝散

Two flowers and no weights: the leaf names neither amounts nor 各等分. 黃蜀葵花 is entered against 蜀葵花, the hollyhock flower, which is where this corpus's alias table places the 黃蜀葵 drugs; the plant of the name is properly Abelmoschus rather than Althaea. 落地茄花 — aubergine flowers that have fallen of themselves — is entered against 大茄, the aubergine, there being no separate entry for the flower. 去心幷萼 is read as coring the flower but keeping the calyx.

Composition 構成

Daega Da Qie
大茄 대가 · Aubergine

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Chief 君

落地茄花(去白) — aubergine flowers fallen to the ground, the white removed
Chokgyuhwa Shu Kui Hua
蜀葵花 촉규화 · Hollyhock Flower

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Chief 君

黃蜀葵花(去心, 幷萼, 日乾) — yellow hollyhock flowers, cored, with the calyx, sun-dried

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Actions 效能

Disperses swelling, astringes toxin and expels pus
Thinned with well water and swept onto the affected place with a chicken feather, renewed as it dries
Dusted on dry as a powder where the mouth of the sore is already open

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

A toxic swelling that may yet gather or may yet break
瘡口 standing open after the swelling has burst

Biomedical correlates

Suppurative skin and soft-tissue infection — topical
An open discharging wound — topical dressing

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

消腫斂毒排膿. 落地茄花(去白)ㆍ黃蜀葵花(去心, 幷萼, 日乾). 右爲末, 井水稀調, 雞羽掃付患處, 乾則再付. 或收毒平散, 或破潰出膿, 神效. 如瘡口開, 用末摻, 亦斂毒不急澁. 《直指》

Translation

Disperses swelling, astringes toxin and expels pus. Aubergine flowers fallen to the ground, the white part removed; yellow hollyhock flowers, the core taken out and the calyx kept, dried in the sun. Powder them, thin the powder with well water, sweep it onto the affected place with a chicken feather, and apply again as it dries. Either the toxin is gathered and the swelling levels off, or it bursts and the pus comes out — either way the effect is marvellous. If the mouth of the sore is already open, use the dry powder and dust it on; it astringes the toxin as well, without binding or drawing. — Jikji 直指 (Donguibogam · Ongjeo)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Two flowers, dried and powdered, and nothing else — the simplest application in the chapter and the only one whose whole substance is petals. Hollyhock flower is mucilaginous and the slip it gives in water is what makes this spreadable; the aubergine flowers are specified as ones that have dropped by themselves, which is a collector's note rather than a pharmacological one. What is worth reading is the leaf's honesty about the outcome: 或收毒平散, 或破潰出膿 — either it settles or it bursts, and both count as success. That is a fair description of what happens to a swelling whatever is put on it. The closing phrase, 斂毒不急澁, claims the dry powder tightens the wound without dragging on it, which for a mucilaginous flower powder is plausible as far as comfort goes. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.