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Five Sloughs Powder

Otoe-san

한글 오퇴산 (눈) · Pinyin Wu Tui San

五退散

A second Five Sloughs Powder appears later in this chapter under External Obstruction; the two are distinguished by composition.

Composition 構成

Seontoe Chan Tui
蟬退 선퇴 · Cicada Moulting

10 g
Chief 君

蟬退
Satoe She Tui
蛇蛻 사퇴 · Snake Slough

10 g
Chief 君

蛇退
Jamtoe Can Tui
蚕退 잠퇴 · Silkworm Moult

10 g
Deputy 臣

蚕退
Gyerangak Ji Dan Ke
雞卵殼 계란각 · Eggshell

10 g
Deputy 臣

烏雞卵殼
Baldu Tou Fa
頭髮 발두 · Human Hair

10 g
Assistant 佐

男子髮
Jeogan Zhu Gan
猪肝 저간 · Pig Liver

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Envoy 使

as the decoction the powder is taken in

Total 50 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient 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 internal obstruction

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Internal obstruction with a screen over the eye

Biomedical correlates

Corneal opacity
Cataract

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治內障. 蟬退ㆍ蛇退ㆍ蚕退ㆍ烏雞卵殼ㆍ男子髮各等分. 右燒存性爲末, 猪肝煎湯調下一錢. 《入門》

Translation

Treats internal obstruction. Cicada slough, snake slough, silkworm slough, black hen's eggshell and a man's hair in equal parts. Burn them with their nature retained, powder, and take 1 don stirred into a decoction of pig's liver. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · An)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Five things a creature has shed or left behind, all charred — slough, slough, slough, shell, hair. The reasoning is sympathetic and quite explicit: what was cast off will cast off the screen. A pig's liver decoction carries it, which is the same liver-for-the-liver idea as Yanggan-won. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.