Resolve Toxin Beverage

Sodok-eum

한글 소독음 (옹저) · Pinyin Xiao Du Yin

消毒飮

The Bogam carries this name twice; the Eye chapter's 得效 formula for 瞼生風粟 is registered as sodok-eum-an, and has only rhubarb and licorice in common with this leaf, so this one takes the chapter tail. The transcription writes the indication 偏毒 where the section's term is 便毒 — it prints 偏 here and at 玉燭散 and 便 at 神奇散 and 雙解散, and the first-edition collation line at the foot of page 004a reads 便 against the 初刊本's 偏; the transcription's reading is printed in each leaf.

Composition 構成

Jogak Zao Jiao
皂角 조각 · Gleditsia Pod

5.2 g
Chief 君

the thorns (皂角刺)
Geumeunhwa Jin Yin Hua
金銀花 금은화 · Honeysuckle

5.2 g
Chief 君
Danggwi Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

5.2 g
Deputy 臣
Daehwang Da Huang
大黃 대황 · Rhubarb

5.2 g
Deputy 臣
Bangpung Fang Feng
防風 방풍 · Siler

5.2 g
Assistant 佐
Gwaruin Gua Lou Ren
瓜蔞仁 과루인 · Trichosanthes Seed

5.2 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

5.2 g
Envoy 使

Total 36.4 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

Treats 便毒, the groin toxin, which it can disperse in three or four days
Pierces and vents the toxin while draining it downward
Taken in half water and half wine, with the hair at the crown repeatedly tugged

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

便毒 — groin toxin in its first three or four days, before it suppurates
A hard painful node in the groin with heat and toxin bound

Biomedical correlates

Early suppurative inguinal lymphadenitis (bubo) before it points
Inguinal abscess, early

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治偏毒, 三四日可消. 皂角刺ㆍ金銀花ㆍ防風ㆍ當歸ㆍ大黃ㆍ瓜蔞仁ㆍ甘草各一錢三分. 右剉, 作一貼, 水酒各半煎服. 仍頻提掣頂中髮, 立效. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats groin toxin, which it can disperse in three or four days. Gleditsia thorns, honeysuckle, siler, Korean angelica, rhubarb, trichosanthes seed and licorice, 1 don 3 fun each. Cut the above, make one packet, and decoct in half water and half wine. Then keep tugging at the hair in the middle of the crown, and it answers at once. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Ongjeo)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Gleditsia thorn and honeysuckle lead: the thorn is the chapter's piercing drug, said to open a way for the toxin where a swelling is hard and closed, and honeysuckle is the standing drug for toxic swelling in the whole surgical tradition. Rhubarb and trichosanthes seed drain downward, Korean angelica moves the blood, siler vents outward, licorice moderates. Half wine in the decoction is there to carry the drugs to the surface and into a limb-root region the formula wants to reach. The curious instruction is 仍頻提掣頂中髮 — then keep tugging at the hair in the middle of the crown. That is the vertex, 百會, and the reasoning is presumably to lift the sunken qi upward while the drugs push the toxin down. It is the kind of hands-on adjunct the Dansim records without explaining, and it is worth preserving as written rather than tidying away. **An inguinal abscess that has pointed needs drainage, and an inguinal bubo following a genital ulcer needs testing for sexually transmitted infection. Contains rhubarb and must not be used in pregnancy.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.