Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Uibang Yuchwi (醫方類聚)

Five Galls Paste

Odam-go

한글 오담고 · Pinyin Wu Dan Gao

五膽膏

Composition 構成

Cheongyangdam Qing Yang Dan
靑羊膽 청양담 · Goat Gall

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Chief 君

one gall
Udamjeup Niu Dan Zhi
牛膽汁 우담즙 · Ox Bile

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Chief 君

黃牛膽汁
Ieodam Li Yu Dan
鯉魚膽 이어담 · Carp Gall

30 g
Deputy 臣

7 don 5 pun
Ungdam Xiong Dan
熊膽 웅담 · Bear Bile (CITES-listed)

10 g
Deputy 臣

2 don 5 pun · CITES
Ogyedam Wu Ji Dan
烏雞膽 오계담 · Black-Boned Fowl Gall

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Deputy 臣

five galls
Uhwang Niu Huang
牛黃 우황 · Cattle Gallstone

20 g
Assistant 佐

5 don

Total 60 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 3 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Treats dim eyes with constant black flowers
about to become an internal obstruction

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Dim eyes with floaters becoming an internal obstruction

Biomedical correlates

Early cataract

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治眼昏常見黑花, 欲成內障. 靑羊膽一枚, 黃牛膽汁一合, 熊膽二錢半, 鯉魚膽七錢半, 烏雞膽五枚, 牛黃五錢. 右爲末, 先將諸膽相和, 次入牛黃末攪勻, 銀石器內慢火熬成膏. 食後溫酒調下半錢, 仍將少許點眼中. 《類聚》

Translation

Treats dim eyes with constant black flowers, about to become an internal obstruction. One goat gall; ox bile one hop; bear gall 2 don 5 pun; carp gall 7 don 5 pun; five black-fowl galls; bezoar 5 don. Powder them; first mix the galls together, then stir in the powdered bezoar, and simmer over a low fire in a silver or stone vessel to a paste. Take half a don after food stirred into warm wine, and dot a little into the eye as well. — Uibang Yuchwi 類聚 (Donguibogam · An)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Five galls and a bezoar reduced to a paste in a silver vessel, then both swallowed and dotted into the eye — the chapter's only preparation used inside and out at once. Bitter cold gall for the liver is the idea throughout, and the silver or stone vessel is specified because iron was held to spoil a gall preparation. **Bear gall comes from a CITES-listed species and cannot lawfully be traded.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.