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

Burdock Seed Decoction

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한글 서점자탕  ·  Pinyin Shu Nian Zi Tang

鼠粘子湯

Composition 構成

Total 36 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

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Heat toxin in the ear — a red painful swelling

Biomedical correlates

  • Furuncle of the ear canal
  • Acute otitis externa

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治耳內生腫, 紅如櫻桃, 極痛. 連翹ㆍ片芩(酒炒)ㆍ玄參ㆍ桔梗ㆍ梔子(酒炒)ㆍ鼠粘子(炒)ㆍ草龍膽(酒炒)ㆍ板藍根<span class='sochu'>卽菘藍子</span>ㆍ生甘草 各一錢. 右剉, 作一貼, 水煎, 食後服, 隨飮酒一二盞. 《醫鑑》

Translation

Treats a swelling arising within the ear, red as a cherry and extremely painful. Forsythia, sliced scutellaria (wine-fried), scrophularia, platycodon, gardenia (wine-fried), burdock seed (stir-fried), gentian (wine-fried), isatis root <span class='sochu'>that is, woad seed</span> and raw licorice 1 don each. Cut up, make one packet, decoct in water and take after food, drinking a jan or two of wine after it. — Gogeum Uigam 醫鑑 (Donguibogam · I)

Clinical commentary 臨床

紅如櫻桃 — red as a cherry. A furuncle in the ear canal, and the description is exact: a small bright swelling that hurts out of all proportion to its size. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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