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Frankincense Powder (Contusion Formula)

Yuhyang-san

한글 유향산 (전박상) · Pinyin Ru Xiang San

乳香散

Three formulas named 乳香散 stand in the corpus and they are not the same prescription. This is the one in 1.4 攧撲墮落壓倒傷, from 得效, seven drugs in equal parts for the pain of a contusion. A second 乳香散 stands in 1.10 杖傷 of this same chapter, built on 自然銅 for flogging wounds, registered as yuhyang-san-jangsang. A third, unrelated to either, is the 綱目 powder of frankincense, myrrh, alum and verdigris dusted on red mouth sores in 口舌門, registered as yuhyang-san-gu. The chapter tail distinguishes the two Bogam trauma formulas from each other and from the mouth-sore powder, which keeps the bare-stem id it was registered with.

Composition 構成

Yuhyang Ru Xiang
乳香 유향 · Frankincense

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Chief 君

equal parts
Moryak Mo Yao
沒藥 몰약 · Myrrh

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Chief 君

equal parts
Danggwi Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

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Deputy 臣

equal parts, dry-fried (炒)
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

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Deputy 臣

equal parts, dry-fried (炒)
Baekji Bai Zhi
白芷 백지 · Dahurian Angelica

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Assistant 佐

equal parts
Yukgye Rou Gui
肉桂 육계 · Cinnamon Bark

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Assistant 佐

equal parts, as 桂皮
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

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Envoy 使

equal parts

Total g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 7 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Treats blunt injury and contusion where the pain is past bearing
Moves blood and settles pain — 2 don of the powder taken in warm wine

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Blunt injury and contusion with unbearable pain

Biomedical correlates

Contusion and soft-tissue injury — pain

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治打撲傷損, 痛不可忍. 白朮(炒)ㆍ當歸(炒)ㆍ白芷ㆍ桂皮ㆍ乳香ㆍ沒藥ㆍ甘草各等分. 右爲末, 每二錢, 溫酒調下. 《得效》

Translation

Treats blunt injury and contusion, with pain past bearing. White atractylodes (dry-fried), Chinese angelica (dry-fried), angelica dahurica, cinnamon bark, frankincense, myrrh and licorice, equal parts of each. Powder them; 2 don each time, stirred into warm wine and taken down. — Seui Deukhyobang 得效 (Donguibogam · Jesang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Seven drugs in equal parts, powdered, 2 don in warm wine. The pair that names it — frankincense and myrrh — sits on a warming, blood-moving base: 當歸 and 白朮 both dry-fried, 白芷, 桂皮, 甘草. The indication is narrow and the text does not pretend otherwise: 打撲傷損, 痛不可忍, a blunt injury where the pain has stopped being bearable. This is an analgesic, not a treatment for the injury under it. The two resins are weak anti-inflammatories; the warm wine is the most reliably active thing in the cup, and it is the wine that will take the edge off. For a bruise or a wrenched muscle that is a fair trade. For a fracture, a joint that will not bear weight, or any blow to the head, pain past bearing is a reason to get the part imaged, not a reason to reach for a powder. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.