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Antelope Horn Powder for a Lasting Ice Screen

Yeongyanggak-san

한글 영양각산 (빙예) · Pinyin Ling Yang Jiao San

羚羊角散

The third of three Antelope Horn Powders in this chapter and the fourth of the name overall; the transcription writes 米湛水 for 米泔水, as the source's collation records.

Composition 構成

Yeongyanggak Ling Yang Jiao
羚羊角 영양각 · Saiga Antelope Horn (prohibited)

80 g
Chief 君

2 nyang, filed to shavings · CITES
Seungma Sheng Ma
升麻 승마 · Cimicifuga

80 g
Chief 君

2 nyang
Sesin Xi Xin
細辛 세신 · Asarum

80 g
Deputy 臣

2 nyang
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

40 g
Envoy 使

1 nyang
Migam Mi Gan
米泔 미감 · Rice-Washing Water

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Envoy 使

米泔水

Total 280 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient 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 an ice screen that has long failed to go

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Long-standing ice screen

Biomedical correlates

Chronic corneal opacity

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治氷瞖久不去. 羚羊角屑ㆍ升麻ㆍ細辛各二兩, 甘草一兩. 右爲末, 一半蜜丸梧子大, 一半爲散. 每取一錢, 以米泔水煎, 以此呑下五十丸. 《保命》

Translation

Treats an ice screen that has long failed to go. Antelope horn shavings, cimicifuga and asarum 2 nyang each; licorice 1 nyang. Powder them; make half into honey pills the size of parasol-tree seeds and leave half as a powder. Take 1 don of the powder decocted in rice-washing water, and swallow fifty of the pills down with it. — Bomyeongjip 保命 (Donguibogam · An)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The same powder made up two ways and taken together — half as pills to work slowly, half as a decoction to carry them. Four medicinals only, and the pairing of cimicifuga with asarum is what gives it reach: one lifts to the surface, the other penetrates. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.