Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Gogeum Uigam (古今醫鑑)

Navel-Filling Paste

Napje-go

한글 납제고 · Pinyin Na Qi Gao

納臍膏

The vine must be gathered after frost has touched it, which the Bogam specifies as part of the material.

Composition 構成

Wanggwadeung Wang Gua Teng
王瓜藤 왕과등 · Snake Gourd Vine

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Chief 君

vine with stem and leaf, frost-touched, sun-dried and burnt to ash
Cheongyu Qing You
淸油 청유 · Clear Sesame Oil

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Envoy 使

sesame oil

Total 0 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 2 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Treats the clenched-mouth dysentery in a critical case
healing at once

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Clenched-mouth dysentery with collapse

Biomedical correlates

Dysentery with intractable vomiting

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治噤口痢危重者, 用之立愈. 王瓜藤連莖葉, 經霜者, 晒乾燒灰, 香油調, 納臍中卽效. 《醫鑑》

Translation

Treats the clenched-mouth dysentery in a critical case; used, it heals at once. Snake gourd vine with stem and leaf, frost-touched, sun-dried and burnt to ash, stirred up with sesame oil and put into the navel — immediate effect. — Gogeum Uigam 醫鑑 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The last of the four navel treatments for the clenched-mouth dysentery, and the one the Uigam reserves for a critical case. Ash and oil packed into the umbilicus has no plausible systemic action, and the formula is best read as what a physician does when the patient can take nothing by mouth and is dying — which is also the honest reading of the claim that it heals at once. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.