Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Manbyeong Hoechun (萬病回春)
Sage-Penetrating Five Treasures Elixir
Tongseongobo-dan
한글 통성오보단 · Pinyin Tong Sheng Wu Bao Dan
The transcription prints a space inside 土茯苓 一斤 at 026b; it is not a gap in the text. 飛白霜 is left out of the ingredient list because it is not a registered drug and because the leaf itself only conjectures its identity: the closing clause 飛白霜疑是輕粉, "flying white frost is probably calomel", is the book's own editorial note and is kept as part of the leaf. The chapter index at 025a names this formula 通仙五寶丹, where the leaf heads itself 通聖五寶丹; the leaf's form is printed and the index reading recorded here.
Composition 構成
- Jongyubun鍾乳粉 종유분 · Stalactite Powder1.2 g
Chief 君stalactite powder, 3 fun
- Jusa朱砂 주사 · Cinnabar (toxic)0.8 g
Deputy 臣丹砂, 2 fun — cinnabar, mercuric sulfide, toxic
- Hobak琥珀 호박 · Amber0.2 g
Assistant 佐5 ri
- Yongnoe龍腦 용뇌 · Borneol0.2 g
Assistant 佐片腦, 5 ri
- Jinju眞珠 진주 · Pearl0.1 g
Assistant 佐2 ri 5 ho
- Tobongnyeong土茯苓 토복령 · Smilax640 g
Envoy 使1 geun decocted daily to ten bowls, one bowl to a dose
Total 642.5 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 plum-blossom, heavenly blister and cotton-flower sores ulcerated down to the bone
- Also aching sinews and bones, lumps over the whole body, red and white vitiligo, goose-foot tinea, broken skin and rotten flesh with a stench past bearing
- Five ri of the powder is taken each morning in a bowl of smilax decoction, a geun of smilax being decocted daily to ten bowls
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Extreme heat toxin in the blood with ulceration to the bone
- Stubborn sores and malign toxin of every kind
Biomedical correlates
- Advanced ulcerating syphilis — historical treatment
- Syphilitic bone and joint disease
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治楊梅ㆍ天疱ㆍ綿花等瘡潰爛見骨, 或筋骨疼痛, 或遍身疙瘩, 或成赤白癜ㆍ鵝掌癬, 或皮破肉爛, 口臭難當. 一切頑瘡惡毒並皆治之. 鍾乳粉 三分, 丹砂 二分, 琥珀ㆍ片腦 各五釐, 眞珠 二釐半. 右細末, 每服五釐, 另入飛白霜 二分半(炒過), 合作一貼. 每日取土茯苓 一斤, 水煎取汁十椀, 以湯一椀入藥一貼, 攪勻晨服. 其茯苓湯須一日服盡, 不可別用湯水. 服一料卽愈, 神驗. 乃治楊梅天下古今第一仙方也. 《回春》 ○飛白霜疑是輕粉.
Translation
Treats plum-blossom, heavenly blister and cotton-flower sores ulcerated open down to the bone; or aching of the sinews and bones; or lumps over the whole body; or red and white vitiligo and goose-foot tinea; or broken skin and rotten flesh with a stench of the mouth past bearing. Every stubborn sore and malign toxin is treated by it. Stalactite powder 3 fun, cinnabar 2 fun, amber and borneol 5 ri each, pearl 2 ri 5 ho. Grind fine; for each dose take 5 ri, and add separately 2 fun 5 ri of flying white frost (stir-fried) to make up one packet. Each day take a geun of smilax, decoct it in water and draw off ten bowls of the liquid; put one packet of the medicine into one bowl of the decoction, stir it evenly and take it in the morning. The whole of that smilax decoction must be drunk up within the day, and no other soup or water may be used. Take one course and it is cured — a marvel. It is the first immortal formula under heaven, in all ages, for plum-blossom sores. — Hoechun 回春 ○ Flying white frost is probably calomel. (Donguibogam · Jechang)