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Forsythia Drink

Yeongyo-eum

한글 연교음  ·  Pinyin Lian Qiao Yin

連翹飮

Fifteen drugs, all at 7 pun, with the rush pith added to the packet and not weighed. 惡實 is the Bogam's regular name for 牛蒡子 and is entered under that id, as elsewhere in the corpus. 梔子 is printed as the transcription has it.

Composition 構成

Total 42 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • 惡瘡遍身痛痒 — malign sores over the whole body, painful and itching
  • 血風瘡 — the blood-wind sore, a chronic itching eruption from wind lodged in the blood

Biomedical correlates

  • Chronic eczema and prurigo
  • Generalised itching dermatitis with secondary infection

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治惡瘡遍身痛痒, 及血風瘡. 連翹ㆍ赤芍藥ㆍ當歸ㆍ荊芥ㆍ防風ㆍ惡實ㆍ川芎ㆍ梔子ㆍ黃芩ㆍ瞿麥ㆍ木通ㆍ生乾地黃ㆍ瓜蔞根ㆍ麥門冬ㆍ甘草 各七分. 右剉, 作一貼, 入燈心一塊, 水煎服. 《得效》

Translation

Treats malign sores over the whole body with pain and itching, and the blood-wind sore. Forsythia, red peony, tangkuei, schizonepeta, ledebouriella, burdock seed, cnidium, gardenia, scutellaria, dianthus, akebia, dried raw rehmannia, trichosanthes root, ophiopogon and liquorice, 7 pun of each. Cut the above up, make one packet, add one lump of rush pith, decoct in water and take. — Seui Deukhyobang 得效 (Donguibogam · Jechang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The broadest of the three decoctions in this section. Forsythia heads a venting-and-clearing group — burdock seed, schizonepeta, ledebouriella — while red peony, tangkuei, cnidium and dried raw rehmannia work on the blood, and gardenia, dianthus and akebia with the rush pith drain heat downward through the urine. Ophiopogon and trichosanthes root replace fluid, liquorice harmonises. Nothing is given more weight than anything else, which is characteristic of the Deukhyo's generalist formulas. Two indications are named. 惡瘡遍身痛痒 is the section's subject, and 血風瘡, the blood-wind sore, is the tradition's name for a chronic, intensely itching eruption that scabs and recurs — close to what would now be called chronic eczema or prurigo, where scratching maintains the lesion. This is a reasonable formula on its own terms and holds nothing dangerous. It is worth saying plainly that for a chronic itching eruption the one intervention that reliably helps is breaking the itch-scratch cycle, and that a sore running pus needs its infection treated rather than vented. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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