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Auspicious Cloud Incense Ball

Seounhyanggu

한글 서운향구  ·  Pinyin Rui Yun Xiang Qiu

瑞雲香毬

艾蒳香 is printed as the transcription reads it. The transcription writes the character with its composed-glyph notation ▼(艹/納) — 艹 over 納 — and the First Edition reads 納, but the composed character does have a code point, 蒳 at U+84B3, and the transcription itself uses it ten lines later in 聚仙香's gloss 卽艾蒳香也. So the notation is a transcriber's inconsistency between two leaves rather than a character that cannot be set, and the base text's own reading stands. The drug — the mossy growth on pine bark, as the leaf's own gloss identifies it — is now registered as 艾蒳香 and entered as an ingredient. No Latin name is given, because the Bogam gives nothing that would fix the lichen's genus, let alone its species. Two further collation notes stand at this page foot — 真 : 眞 and 百 : 五 — but neither character occurs in this leaf: both annotate the 香譜 table in the preceding section, where 淸眞 is a column head and 甘松 百錢 a cell. They are not acted on here.

Composition 構成

Total g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 2 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • None given; the leaf is a compounding method

Biomedical correlates

  • Not a therapeutic preparation

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

瑞雲香毬, 酸棗仁 一升, 水和硏汁一椀, 煎成膏, 香附子ㆍ白芷 各三兩, 白檀ㆍ茅香ㆍ艾蒳香<span class='sochu'>卽松木上靑苔衣也</span>ㆍ草豆蔲ㆍ丁香 各一兩, 木香 五錢, 龍腦 一錢. 右爲末, 以酸棗仁膏搜和, 入熟蜜和勻, 杵令不粘手得所, 爲丸蓮子大. 每燒一丸, 靑烟直上三尺許, 結成毬子于空中, 移時不散. 《必用》

Translation

Auspicious Cloud Incense Ball. Sour jujube seed, 1 seung, mixed with water and ground to a juice, one bowl of it boiled down to a paste; cyperus and dahurian angelica, 3 nyang each; white sandalwood, sweet grass, ainap incense — that is, the green moss-coat on pine trees — katsumada galangal seed and clove, 1 nyang each; costus root, 5 don; borneol, 1 don. Powder them, work them up with the sour-jujube paste, add boiled honey and blend evenly, pound until it no longer sticks to the hand and is just right, and make pills the size of a lotus seed. Burn one at a time: the blue smoke rises straight up some three feet and gathers into a ball in the air, and for a while does not disperse. — Piryong 必用 (Donguibogam · Japbang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

A burning perfume, not a drug. The working parts are the two binders: sour-jujube seed ground to a juice and reduced to a paste, with boiled honey added, which together hold the aromatic powder in a pill that can be pounded without sticking. The aromatics themselves are the standard incense set — sandalwood, sweet grass, clove, costus, galangal seed, borneol — with cyperus and dahurian angelica, which are cheap, fragrant and make up the bulk. What the leaf is actually proud of is the smoke. One pill burnt sends a column of blue smoke up about three feet, where it rolls into a ball that holds its shape for a time — the 毬, the ball, that gives the incense its name. That is a draught effect and a matter of how slowly the pill smoulders, and it is the whole point of the recipe. Nothing here treats anything. Incense smoke is combustion smoke: it carries fine particulates and irritants, and a closed room thick with it is worse for the lungs than no incense at all. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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