Formulas · External Application 外用 · Sokbang (俗方)

Winter Sacrifice Salve

Naphyang-go

한글 납향고 · Pinyin La Xiang Gao

臘享膏

猯油, badger oil, has no identifier in the herb list — 猯肉 is the meat, a different drug — and is left out of the ingredients. 海松子油 is registered under the pine nut it is pressed from. This is the only 俗方 leaf in the group, and the only one without a Chinese source.

Composition 構成

Jeoji Zhu Zhi
猪脂 저지 · Lard

100 g
Chief 君

2 nyang 5 don · raw animal fat, an infection risk on an open sore
Cheongyu Qing You
淸油 청유 · Clear Sesame Oil

—
Deputy 臣

香油, 2 hop 5 jak
Songjain Song Zi Ren
松子仁 송자인 · Pine Nut

—
Deputy 臣

海松子油, one hop of the pressed pine-nut oil
Songji Song Zhi
松脂 송지 · Pine Resin

150 g
Assistant 佐

3 nyang 7 don 5 pun
Hwangnap Huang La
黃蠟 황랍 · Beeswax

150 g
Assistant 佐

3 nyang 7 don 5 pun

Total 400 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

Treats the frost sore
Each fat rendered and strained, the whole combined into a salve and spread on after washing

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

凍瘡 — the frost sore of winter
Cracked and broken skin from cold

Biomedical correlates

Chilblains — external use
Fissured skin from cold exposure

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治凍瘡. 猪脂ㆍ猯油各二兩半, 香油二合半, 海松子油一合, 松脂ㆍ黃蠟各三兩七錢半. 右各煉去滓, 和合成膏, 先以藥水洗後塗之. 《俗方》

Translation

Treats the frost sore. Lard and badger oil, 2 nyang 5 don each; sesame oil 2 hop 5 jak; pine-nut oil 1 hop; pine resin and beeswax, 3 nyang 7 don 5 pun each. Render and strain each of the above, combine them into a salve, first wash with the medicinal wash and then spread it on. — Sokbang 俗方 (Donguibogam · Jechang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Six fats, waxes and resins and nothing else: two animal fats, two plant oils, pine resin and beeswax, each rendered and strained separately and then combined. There is no active drug at all. It is a barrier ointment, and the name points at the season it was made in — the 臘 rites fall in the twelfth month, when the fats were gathered. For chilblains this is close to right. The injury is to skin repeatedly chilled and rewarmed, and what it needs is insulation, occlusion and protection from further cold; the resin and wax give the salve body and make it stay where it is put, and the oils keep the fissures from opening. A Korean household remedy, recorded as 俗方 because it had no textual authority behind it, and the most sensible formula in this group. 凍瘡 at 2.14 also covers true frostbite, where a grease is not the answer: frozen tissue wants rapid rewarming in water near body temperature, no rubbing, no dry heat, and no surgical decision until the boundary between living and dead tissue has declared itself over weeks. **Raw rendered animal fat on an open sore carries an infection risk** and the ointment should be used on intact or barely broken skin only. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.