Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Bezoar Pill for a Child's Crossed Eye

Uhwang-hwan

한글 우황환 (통정) · Pinyin Niu Huang Wan

牛黃丸

Composition 構成

Seogak Xi Jiao
犀角 서각 · Rhinoceros Horn (prohibited)

8 g
Chief 君

2 don, filed to shavings · CITES
Uhwang Niu Huang
牛黃 우황 · Cattle Gallstone

4 g
Chief 君

1 don
Geumbak Jin Bo
金箔 금박 · Gold Leaf

—
Assistant 佐

five leaves
Eunbak Yin Bo
銀箔 은박 · Silver Leaf

—
Assistant 佐

five leaves
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

10 g
Envoy 使

2 don 5 pun
Bakha Bo He
薄荷 박하 · Mint

—
Envoy 使

decocted as the draught

Total 22 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 3 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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 a child's crossed eye

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Child's crossed eye with heat and fright

Biomedical correlates

Esotropia in childhood
Convergent strabismus

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治小兒通睛. 犀角屑二錢, 牛黃一錢, 金箔ㆍ銀箔各五片, 甘草二錢半. 右爲末, 蜜丸菉豆大, 每七丸, 薄荷湯呑下. 《入門》

Translation

Treats a child's crossed eye. Rhinoceros horn shavings 2 don; bezoar 1 don; gold leaf and silver leaf five leaves each; licorice 2 don 5 pun. Powder them, make honey pills the size of mung beans, and swallow seven at a time with mint decoction. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · An)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Bezoar, horn and the two metal leaves — the fright-settling group, given here because a child's eye turning in was read as heat and fright reaching the liver. A convergent squint in a child is refractive or neurological and this would not have moved it, but the formula is worth noting as the chapter's only paediatric prescription of this kind. **Rhinoceros horn comes from a CITES-listed species and cannot lawfully be traded; water buffalo horn is used in its place.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.