Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Seui Deukhyobang (世醫得效方)

Sacred Herb Powder

Seongcho-san

한글 성초산 · Pinyin Sheng Cao San

聖草散

The gauze and brush are apparatus rather than medicinals and are not listed among the ingredients.

Composition 構成

Bokbunja Fu Pen Zi
覆盆子 복분자 · Korean Raspberry

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Chief 君

覆盆子葉, the leaves pounded for their juice; in the second method the soft leaves are ground with the first milk of a woman who has borne a boy and made into a pill
Inyu Ren Ru
人乳 인유 · Human Milk

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Envoy 使

in the second method

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Actions 效能

Treats rotten-rim wind with worms and itching

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Rotten-rim wind with itching

Biomedical correlates

Ulcerative blepharitis
Demodex blepharitis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治爛弦風虫痒. 覆盆子葉擣取汁, 以皂紗蒙眼上, 將筆蘸藥汁𦘕兩眸於紗上, 然後以汁滴之, 當有虫出. 《得效》 ○又法, 取覆盆子軟葉, 入初男兒乳汁, 硏勻爲丸, 置眥頭上, 引虫出自. 《直指》

Translation

Treats rotten-rim wind with worms and itching. Pound raspberry leaves for their juice; cover the eye with black silk gauze, dip a brush in the juice and paint the two pupils on the gauze, and then drip the juice on — worms should come out. Another: take the soft leaves of raspberry, grind them evenly with the first milk of a woman who has borne a boy, make a pill, and place it at the inner corner of the eye to draw the worms out. — Seui Deukhyobang 得效 · Jikji 直指 (Donguibogam · An)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The strangest method in the chapter and the one most clearly observed. A gauze is laid over the closed eye, two pupils are painted on it in the juice, and the juice is then dripped on, after which worms are said to come out at the lid margin. What lives at an ulcerated lid margin is Demodex, and it does migrate to the surface — so the observation behind the ritual is a real one, whatever the painted pupils were for. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.