Formulas · External Application 外用 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Glutinous Rice Paste

Nami-go

한글 나미고 · Pinyin Nuo Mi Gao

糯米膏

Composition 構成

Nami Nuo Mi
糯米 나미 · Glutinous Rice

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Chief 君

淨糯米 — washed clean, 3 seung; soaked, wind-dried, then a little at a time parched black and powdered

Total 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

A paste laid over the sore to the size of the sore, bound with silk and left until the sore heals
Kept always moist, the dressing renewed whenever it dries

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

A sore that needs covering and keeping until it heals

Biomedical correlates

Wound and ulcer dressing — topical

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

淨糯米三升, 入磁盆內, 於端午前四十九日, 以冷水浸之, 一日兩度換水, 勿令米碎. 至端午日取出, 用絹袋盛之, 風乾. 每旋取少許, 炒黑爲末, 冷水調成膏, 量瘡大小貼之, 絹帛包定, 直候瘡愈爲度. 乾則換, 常令濕爲妙. 《入門》

Translation

Glutinous rice, washed clean, 3 seung. Put it in an earthenware basin forty-nine days before the Dano festival and steep it in cold water, changing the water twice a day and not letting the grains break up. On the day of Dano take it out, put it in a silk bag and dry it in the wind. Each time, take out a little, parch it black, powder it, and stir it into cold water to make a paste; lay it on to the size of the sore, bind it fast with silk, and keep it there until the sore has healed. When it dries, replace it; it is best kept always moist. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Ongjeo)

Clinical commentary 臨床

One ingredient and a calendar. Glutinous rice steeped in changed water for the forty-nine days up to Dano, wind-dried in a silk bag, and then taken a pinch at a time, charred and mixed with cold water into a paste. The long soaking without letting the grains break is a souring and swelling of the starch, and the roasting blackens it; what comes out is a sticky carbon-and-starch paste. The instruction that matters is the last one: 常令濕爲妙, best kept always moist, with the dressing changed as soon as it dries and the sore kept covered until it closes. That is moist wound healing, which is what modern dressings are designed to do, and it is stated here plainly. The rice and the festival date are the tradition's framing; the covering and the keeping wet are the substance. A home-made starch paste on an open sore is not sterile, and the forty-nine-day steep is a deliberate ferment. The principle is sound; this is not the way to apply it. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.