Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Eoyagwon (御藥院方)

Five Yellows Paste

Ohwang-go

한글 오황고 · Pinyin Wu Huang Gao

五黃膏

The source's first-edition collation notes the broken ligusticum graph for 藁 and 緋 for 糾 in this entry.

Composition 構成

Hwangbaek Huang Bai
黃柏 황백 · Phellodendron

40 g
Chief 君

1 nyang
Hwangryeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

20 g
Chief 君

5 don
Hwanggeum Huang Qin
黃芩 황금 · Scutellaria

20 g
Deputy 臣

5 don
Hwangdan Huang Dan
黃丹 황단 · Red Lead (toxic)

20 g
Deputy 臣

5 don · toxic
Daehwang Da Huang
大黃 대황 · Rhubarb

20 g
Deputy 臣

5 don
Bongmil Feng Mi
蜂蜜 봉밀 · Honey

—
Envoy 使

honey water

Total 120 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

Treats the eye red
swollen and painful

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Red swollen painful eye

Biomedical correlates

Acute conjunctivitis
Periorbital inflammation

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治目赤腫痛. 黃栢一兩, 黃連ㆍ黃芩ㆍ黃丹ㆍ大黃各五錢. 右爲末, 每一錢, 蜜水調成膏, 攤糾絹上, 隨左右貼太陽穴, 乾則以溫水潤之. 《御藥》

Translation

Treats the eye red, swollen and painful. Phellodendron 1 nyang; coptis, scutellaria, red lead and rhubarb 5 don each. Powder them; take 1 don at a time, work it into a paste with honey water, spread it on twisted silk, and stick it on the Taeyang point on the affected side, moistening it with warm water when it dries. — Eoyagwon 御藥 (Donguibogam · An)

Clinical commentary 臨床

A plaster for the temple rather than anything put in the eye — the five yellows pasted on silk and stuck over Taeyang, moistened again when it dries. Applying a cooling plaster beside the eye rather than on it is a sound instinct, and the one objection is the red lead among the five. **Contains red lead. Lead is absorbed through skin and cumulatively poisonous. This must not be prepared.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.