Burnt Undergarment Powder

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한글 소곤산 · Pinyin Shao Kun San

燒裩散

The cross-sex instruction 男女互用之 is integral to the formula's logic and is preserved here; nail ash 爪甲 is given as an alternative in the same entry and is registered under the same id.

Composition 構成

Namjagonpo Nan Zi Kun Bu
男子裩布 남자곤포 · Man's Undergarment Cloth

4 g
Chief 君

a piece four or five chi square from next to the genitals, burnt to retain its nature

Total 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 the yin-yang exchange pattern
Draws heat out through the urine

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Yin-yang exchange pattern contracted from a convalescent partner
Heat lodged in the genital region after cold damage

Biomedical correlates

Post-infectious genital inflammation

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治陰陽易. 取近陰處裩襠一片, 方圓四五寸, 燒存性, 溫水調服一錢, 日三. 小便卽利, 陰頭微腫卽愈. 男女互用之. 《入門》 ○又方, 人手足指爪甲二十片, 燒灰末, 米飮調下, 其效亦同. 《入門》

Translation

Treats the yin-yang exchange pattern. Take a piece of undergarment from next to the genitals, four or five chi square, burn it so as to retain its nature, and take 1 don stirred into warm water, three times a day. The urine then passes freely, the glans swells slightly, and the patient is cured. Men and women use each other's. — Immun 入門 ○ Another formula: twenty pieces of human finger and toe nail, burnt to ash and powdered, taken stirred into rice water, with the same effect. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Han, lower)

Clinical commentary 臨床

**This is not a formula to prepare.** Yin-yang exchange is the Bogam's name for illness passed between a convalescent and their partner through intercourse, and the remedy follows a sympathetic logic rather than a pharmacological one: what carried the disease across is burnt and given back, and the partners use each other's garment. The expected signs — urine passing, the glans swelling slightly — are read as the heat finding its way out. It is worth recording because the disease category it belongs to is a real observation about convalescence and transmission, however the treatment reasons about it. Nothing here should be made. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.