Formulas · Dispel Wind 祛風 · Injae Jikji (仁齋直指方)

Salt and Atractylodes Powder

Yeomchul-san

한글 염출산 · Pinyin Yan Zhu San

鹽朮散

The blue salt is parched with the atractylodes and then removed, so it flavours and dries the drug rather than entering the powder; it is listed because the source weighs it.

Composition 構成

Changchul Cang Zhu
蒼朮 창출 · Atractylodes Lancea

160 g
Chief 君

剉, cut up and parched yellow with the salt, which is then discarded
Cheongyeom Qing Yan
靑鹽 청염 · Blue Rock Salt

40 g
Deputy 臣

靑鹽, parched with the atractylodes and then discarded
Mokjeok Mu Zei
木賊 목적 · Horsetail

80 g
Assistant 佐

"童便製, processed in a child's urine"

Total 280 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 inner and outer screens of the eye
Dries the damp behind a clouded eye

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Inner and outer screens of the eye
Dim vision with a clouded surface

Biomedical correlates

Historically used for cataract and corneal opacity
Recorded for historical reference only

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

蒼朮, 治內外障. 蒼朮四兩(剉)ㆍ靑鹽一兩, 同炒黃, 去鹽, 木賊二兩(童便製), 同爲末, 每一錢, 溫米泔調下, 日二三, 最驗, 名鹽朮散. 《直指》

Translation

Black atractylodes treats inner and outer screens of the eye. Black atractylodes 4 nyang, cut up, and 1 nyang of blue salt, parched together to yellow and the salt then discarded; horsetail 2 nyang processed in a child's urine; powdered together, 1 don a dose stirred down in warm rice-washing water, two or three times a day — most proved. It is called Yeomchul-san. — Jikji 直指 (Donguibogam · An)

Clinical commentary 臨床

內外障, the inner and outer screens, are the Eye chapter's two great categories — the outer screen a visible film on the surface, the inner one a clouding behind a clear eye, which is to say a cataract. A cataract is treated by surgery and nothing taken by mouth touches it; a corneal opacity needs its cause found. The salt-parching is a technique rather than an ingredient: salt draws moisture out of the root and is then discarded, which is how the corpus dries a drug it means to act on damp. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.