Campsis Flower Powder for Leprous Wind

Neungsohwa-san

한글 능소화산 (제창) · Pinyin Ling Xiao Hua San

凌霄花散

The Donguibogam has two formulas named 凌霄花散. The other, from the Seui Deukhyobang, is the two-drug 凌霄花ㆍ山梔子 powder for 酒齄鼻 registered as neungsohwa-san; this five-drug Dansim leaf for 癩風 is a different prescription and takes the chapter tail. The transcription writes 蚕 for 蠶; the corpus form is printed. The two 炒 fall after 地龍 and after 全蝎 and are read as preparations of those two drugs. The four creature drugs are counted by the piece and carry no gram figure. 凌霄花 is registered under 紫葳.

Composition 構成

Jawi Zi Wei
紫葳 자위 · Trumpet Creeper Flower

20 g
Chief 君

凌霄花五錢 — campsis flower
Seontoe Chan Tui
蟬退 선퇴 · Cicada Moulting

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Deputy 臣

蟬殼七箇 — seven cicada moultings
Jiryong Di Long
地龍 지룡 · Earthworm

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Deputy 臣

地龍(炒) 七箇 — seven earthworms, stir-fried
Baekgangjam Bai Jiang Can
白殭蠶 백강잠 · Silkworm

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Deputy 臣

白殭蠶七箇 — seven silkworms
Jeongal Quan Xie
全蠍 전갈 · Scorpion (toxic)

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Assistant 佐

全蝎(炒) 七箇 — seven scorpions, stir-fried; toxic
Ju Jiu
酒 주 · Wine

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Envoy 使

熱酒 — hot wine as the draught, 二錢 to a dose

Total g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 5 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 leprous wind, with a divine effect
Four creature drugs counted out by the piece, with campsis flower at five don
Two don in hot wine

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

癩風 — leprous wind
Among the 通用 formulas of the 大風瘡 section

Biomedical correlates

Hansen's disease (leprosy) — historical

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治癩風神效. 蟬殼ㆍ地龍(炒)ㆍ白殭蠶ㆍ全蝎(炒) 各七箇, 凌霄花五錢. 右爲末, 每二錢, 熱酒調下. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats leprous wind, with a divine effect. Cicada moulting, earthworm stir-fried, silkworm and whole scorpion stir-fried, seven of each; campsis flower 5 don. Powder the above; 2 don to a dose stirred into hot wine. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Jechang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Five drugs, and four of them counted out seven at a time: cicada moulting, earthworm, silkworm and scorpion, with campsis flower at five don giving the formula its name. The 大風瘡 section lists it first among the 通用 formulas, the ones for general use once the staged courses and the two route-formulas have been set out. Creature drugs are the chapter's idiom for wind that has gone deep and for lesions that will not move — the same reasoning that puts three snakes at the head of Hwangi-san. Campsis flower is a blood-breaker, which is also what it is doing in the rosacea formula of the same name in the Nose chapter. **Contains whole scorpion, which is toxic.** Seven scorpions to a batch dosed at two don is a small exposure, but the formula has no activity against Mycobacterium leprae and 神效 should be read as the chapter's formula, not as a result. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.