Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Uihak Jeonggam (醫學正傳)

Water-Mixed Paste

Sujo-go

한글 수조고 · Pinyin Shui Diao Gao

水調膏

新汲水 — water newly drawn from the well — is specified for its coolness; the equal parts are converted here at 1 nyang each.

Composition 構成

Haengin Xing Ren
杏仁 행인 · Apricot Kernel

40 g
Chief 君

ground to a paste
Baengmyeon Bai Mian
白麪 백면 · White Wheat Flour

40 g
Deputy 臣

Total 80 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 lockjaw with fever and red swelling where the wind evil is about to pass into the channels but has not yet entered deep
Applied to the wound and the swelling

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Wind evil at the surface of a wound with heat and swelling
Local heat toxin

Biomedical correlates

Wound cellulitis
Early tetanus

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治破傷風發熱ㆍ紅腫, 風邪欲傳經絡而未深入者. 杏仁(硏爲泥)ㆍ白麪等分, 新汲水調成膏, 塗傷腫處, 卽腫消ㆍ熱退, 神驗. 《醫鑑》

Translation

Treats lockjaw with fever and red swelling, where the wind evil is about to pass into the channels and network vessels but has not yet entered deep. Apricot kernel ground to a paste and white wheat flour, equal parts, mixed with newly drawn water into a paste and smeared on the injured swollen place; the swelling subsides and the heat retreats at once, with proven effect. — Uihak Jeonggam 醫鑑 (Donguibogam · Pung)

Clinical commentary 臨床

A cool poultice of apricot kernel and flour, and the indication is the useful part: the wind evil is about to pass into the channels but has not yet entered deep, meaning the wound is red and hot but the patient is not yet rigid. That is a staged assessment, and the treatment staged with it — a local application now, the internal formulas later. Apricot kernel paste is emollient and flour holds it on the skin; a cool wet dressing on an inflamed wound is not bad treatment, though a wound at risk of tetanus needs cleaning and immunoglobulin. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.