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Hedgehog Skin Pill

Wipi-hwan

한글 위피환  ·  Pinyin Wei Pi Wan

蝟皮丸

Composition 構成

Total 252 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 3 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Fistulous piles with discharge

Biomedical correlates

  • Anal fistula

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治瘻漏. 槐花ㆍ艾葉(炒黃)ㆍ枳殼ㆍ地楡ㆍ當歸ㆍ川芎ㆍ黃芪ㆍ白芍藥ㆍ白礬(枯)ㆍ貫衆 各五錢, 蝟皮(燒) 一兩, 髮灰 三錢, 猪蹄甲 十枚(灸焦), 皂角 一挺(醋灸). 右爲末, 蜜丸梧子大, 空心米飮下五七十丸. 《入門》

Translation

Treats seeping fistula. Sophora flower, mugwort leaf (fried yellow), bitter orange, sanguisorba, angelica, chuanxiong, astragalus, white peony, alum (calcined) and dryopteris 5 don each; hedgehog skin (burnt) 1 nyang; hair ash 3 don; ten pig's dewclaws (roasted until scorched); one cake of gleditsia (vinegar-roasted). Powder them, make honey pills the size of a firmiana seed, and take fifty to seventy with rice water on an empty stomach. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Hueum)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Hedgehog skin runs through this whole chapter, and the reasoning is sympathetic: a creature that draws its spines in and rolls up is given for flesh that protrudes and should draw back. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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