Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Uihak Gangmok (醫學綱目)

Gypsum Powder

Seokgo-san

한글 석고산 · Pinyin Shi Gao San

石膏散

The source gives only 等分, equal parts; the weights here are nominal. A second formula of this name from the Jaundice chapter is registered separately as seokgo-san-hwangdal.

Composition 構成

Seokgo Shi Gao
石膏 석고 · Gypsum

40 g
Chief 君
Cheongung Chuan Xiong
川芎 천궁 · Cnidium

40 g
Deputy 臣
Baekji Bai Zhi
白芷 백지 · Dahurian Angelica

40 g
Deputy 臣

Total 120 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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

Clears a yang brightness headache with great effect
Guides the cooling mineral to the forehead with the two channel drugs

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Yang brightness channel headache in the forehead
Headache with heat and a flooding pulse

Biomedical correlates

Frontal headache with fever
Sinus headache with heat signs

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治陽明頭痛大效. 石膏ㆍ川芎ㆍ白芷等分爲末, 每三錢, 茶淸調下. 名石膏散. 《綱目》

Translation

For yang brightness headache it has great effect. Gypsum, cnidium and dahurian angelica in equal parts, powdered; take 3 don a dose, stirred down in clear tea. It is called Seokgo-san. — Gangmok 綱目 (Donguibogam · Du)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Three drugs and a cup of tea. The formula is the Head chapter's channel pharmacology made into a prescription: gypsum for the heat, with cnidium and dahurian angelica — the two guides for the front of the head — to carry it to the forehead. Tea as the vehicle is not incidental, since caffeine is a genuine analgesic adjuvant and is still combined with simple analgesics for exactly this complaint. 陽明頭痛, yang brightness headache, is frontal headache, and the formula is a reasonable antipyretic analgesic by the standards of the pharmacy that produced it. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.