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Six Aromatics Ointment

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한글 육향고  ·  Pinyin Liu Xiang Gao

六香膏

沉束香 and 八角香 have no entry in the herb database and are left out of the ingredient list; 沉束香 is most likely the aloeswood grade written 沉速香 elsewhere, and 八角香 an eight-point aromatic that cannot be identified with confidence. 甘松香 is entered as 甘松 and 冬瓜仁 as 冬瓜子, the same drugs under their database names. 小腦 is the lower grade of borneol and resolves to the borneol entry.

Composition 構成

Total 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

  • 凍傷 — cold injury of the skin
  • 皸瘃 — chapping and chilblain

Biomedical correlates

  • Chilblain (pernio) — topical
  • Frostbite and cold-cracked skin — topical

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治冬寒凍傷ㆍ皸瘃. 白檀香ㆍ沉束香ㆍ丁香ㆍ零陵香ㆍ甘松香ㆍ八角香 各一兩, 爲麄末, 入三升蜜中浸之, 封口, 經七日或十日, 取出, 於火上微溫, 下篩去滓. 乃入三乃子細末 五錢, 小腦末 三錢, 冬瓜仁細末 七兩或十兩, 攪勻, 再下踈篩, 貯器中用之. ○其滓作團, 於火中燒之甚佳, 謂之江梅香. 《俗方》

Translation

Treats cold injury from winter cold, and chapping and chilblain. Sandalwood, chimsok aloeswood, clove, loosestrife herb, nardostachys and eight-point aromatic 1 nyang each, made into a coarse powder and steeped in 3 seung of honey; seal the mouth and leave it seven or ten days. Take it out, warm it gently over the fire and pass it through a sieve to remove the dregs. Then stir in 5 don of finely powdered kaempferia, 3 don of powdered borneol and 7 nyang — or 10 — of finely powdered wax-gourd kernel, mix evenly, pass it again through a coarse sieve, and store it in a vessel for use. ○ The dregs rolled into balls and burned in a fire are excellent, and are called Gangmae-hyang, River Plum Incense. — Sokbang 俗方 (Donguibogam · Japbang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

An aromatic honey salve for winter skin. Six fragrant woods and resins are steeped cold in honey for a week or more, the honey is warmed and strained, and then three powders are stirred in — kaempferia, borneol and a large quantity of wax-gourd kernel, which is the bulking and emollient part. The result is a thick sweet paste. The honest reading is that this is an occlusive emollient, and that is a reasonable thing to put on chapped and chilblained skin: it holds water in and keeps the fissures closed. Honey has mild antibacterial activity of its own. The aromatics are there for the smell and for the period reading of cold injury as a wind in the skin; borneol gives a cooling sensation but does not restore circulation. Nothing in it treats true frostbite, which is a tissue-freezing injury needing rewarming and medical care, and a salve rubbed into frozen tissue can cause further mechanical damage. The last clause is the best detail in the leaf: do not throw the strained dregs away, roll them into pellets and burn them as incense. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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