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

Loofah Powder

Sagwa-san

한글 사과산 · Pinyin Si Gua San

絲瓜散

Composition 構成

Geonsagwa Gan Si Gua
乾絲瓜 건사과 · Dried Loofah

12 g
Chief 君

絲瓜根, the root, frosted once or twice, washed, dewed ten nights, wind-dried, 3 don
Cheongyu Qing You
淸油 청유 · Clear Sesame Oil

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Envoy 使

香油, a coin's worth dripped in warm

Total 12 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 intestinal wind
visceral toxin
fistulous piles and prolapse of the rectum — one dose answers

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Intestinal wind; piles with prolapse

Biomedical correlates

Haemorrhoids
Rectal prolapse

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治腸風ㆍ臟毒ㆍ痔漏ㆍ脫肛. 絲瓜根經霜一二次收採, 洗淨, 夜露十餘宿, 懸當風處陰乾, 每服三錢, 剉散水煎熟, 去滓, 滴香油如錢大, 空心溫服. 忌鷄ㆍ猪ㆍ燒酒. 一服卽效. 《醫鑑》

Translation

Treats intestinal wind, visceral toxin, fistulous piles and prolapse of the rectum. Loofah root gathered after it has been frosted once or twice, washed clean, left in the dew ten nights or more and hung in a windy place to dry in the shade; take 3 don a dose, cut up, decoct in water until done, strain, drip in sesame oil the size of a coin and take warm on an empty stomach. Avoid chicken, pork and distilled spirits. One dose answers. — Gogeum Uigam 醫鑑 (Donguibogam · Hueum)

Clinical commentary 臨床

經霜一二次收採 — gathered after it has been frosted once or twice. The chapter is particular about when a root is dug, and frost after the first hard freeze is held to concentrate what is in it. The oil at the end is there to ease the stool, which is half the treatment in this chapter. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.