Formulas · Drain Dampness 利水滲濕 · Yuchwi (類聚)
Open the Gate Powder
Tonggwan-san
한글 통관산 · Pinyin Tong Guan San
通關散
Composition 構成
Total 20 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.
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Actions 效能
- Treats inability to pass urine
- applied to the navel
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Urine blocked
Biomedical correlates
- Urinary retention — umbilical application
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治小便不通. 白礬ㆍ生白鹽 各二錢半. 右硏勻, 以紙圈圍臍, 抄藥在內, 滴冷水藥上, 卽通. 《類聚》
Translation
Treats inability to pass urine. Raw alum and raw white salt 2 don 5 pun each. Grind them evenly; ring the navel with a circle of paper, spoon the powder inside it, and drip cold water on the powder — it opens at once. — Yuchwi 類聚 (Donguibogam · Sobyeon)
Clinical commentary 臨床
Alum and salt on the navel, wetted with cold water — the chapter's navel methods at 1.9, in their simplest form. The cold drip on the belly is the same stimulus as the hot-and-cold compress: a reflex to start the bladder. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.