Source원문
腋以下至季脇, 長一尺二寸. 季脇以下至髀樞, 長六寸. 《靈樞》
Translation영역
From the armpit down to the free ribs is one cheok two chon; from the free ribs down to the hip joint is six chon.
Yeongchu 靈樞
Formulas · Text · Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
The Flank
Hyeop
한글 협 · Pinyin Xie
The liver's own ground — five causes of a pain under the ribs, the left side blood and the right side qi, and the armpit that smells of fox
脇
The flank is where the liver and gallbladder channels spread, and so a pain there is the liver's until shown otherwise. The chapter's method is to name the causes and treat each: qi depressed, dead blood, phlegm rheum, food accumulated, wind cold — and then two more that cut across them, vacuity against repletion and left against right. The pulse tells the first: a stringlike pulse on both hands is liver qi in surplus. The history tells the rest. A pain that presses worse when pressed and comes at night is old blood; one that comes with cough and a pulled breath is rheum; one that rises like a ridge under the ribs after a heavy meal and hard work is food. The left-and-right rule is the chapter's most-used: Bitter Orange and Chuanxiong Powder for the left, Push the Qi Powder for the right, three medicinals each, differing in one. The chapter closes away from pain altogether — on fox-smell under the arm, treated with snail and croton or simply with ginger juice rubbed in daily for a month, and on leaking armpits, where the palms and soles are always damp enough to spoil the clothes.
6.1 The Measurements of Flank and Armpit 脇腋度數
6.2 Flank and Armpit Belong to Liver and Gallbladder 脇腋屬肝膽
Source원문
肝膽之脈布脇肋. 肋者, 脇骨也. 《銅人》
Translation영역
The liver and gallbladder channels spread over the flank and ribs; the ribs are the flank's bones.
Dongin 銅人
Source원문
肝有邪, 其氣流于兩脇. 《靈樞》
Translation영역
Where the liver has an evil, its qi flows into both flanks.
Yeongchu 靈樞
Source원문
脇痛者, 厥陰肝經爲病也. 《醫鑑》 肩下曰腋, 腋下曰脇, 脇之下曰季脇. 《綱目》
Translation영역
Flank pain is a disease of the reverting yin liver channel. Below the shoulder is the armpit; below the armpit is the flank; below the flank are the free ribs.
Clinical note임상 주석
The three names mark off the side of the chest from the shoulder to the last rib, and the chapter uses them precisely: 腋 for the hollow, 脇 for the ribbed side, 季脇 for the floating ribs where the liver is felt.
Uigam 醫鑑 · Gangmok 綱目
6.3 The Pulse 脉法
Source원문
寸口脈弦者, 卽脇下拘急而痛, 其人嗇嗇惡寒也. 《仲景》
Translation영역
Where the inch-opening pulse is stringlike, there is cramping urgency and pain below the flank, and the person shrinks with aversion to cold.
Junggyeong 仲景
Source원문
脈雙弦者, 肝氣有餘, 兩脇作痛. 《正傳》
Translation영역
Where the pulse is stringlike on both hands, the liver qi is in surplus and both flanks pain.
Clinical note임상 주석
雙弦 — stringlike at both wrists. A single stringlike pulse can be many things; the same on both sides is the chapter's one pulse sign that settles the diagnosis without a history.
Jeongjeon 正傳
Source원문
肝脈沈之而急, 浮之亦然. 若脇下痛, 有氣支滿, 引小腹而痛, 時小便難, 苦目眩頭痛, 腰背痛, 得之少時有所墜墮. 《正傳》
Translation영역
The liver pulse is tight when pressed deep and likewise when felt at the surface. Where there is pain below the flank with propping fullness of qi drawing into the lower abdomen with pain, at times difficult urination, dizziness and headache, and pain of lumbus and back, it was got long ago from a fall.
Jeongjeon 正傳
Source원문
肝脈搏堅而長, 色不靑, 當病墮. 若搏, 因血在脇下, 令人喘逆. 《內經》
Translation영역
Where the liver pulse beats firm and long and the complexion is not green, the disease should be from a fall; if it beats so, it is because blood lies below the flank, making the breath counterflow.
Naegyeong 內經
Source원문
肝脈軟而散, 其色澤者, 當病溢飮. 溢飮者, 渴暴多飮, 而溢入肌皮腸胃之外也. 《內經》
Translation영역
Where the liver pulse is soft and scattered and the complexion glossy, the disease should be spilling rheum — spilling rheum being that one is thirsty, drinks much at once, and it spills out into the flesh and skin and outside the intestines and stomach.
Naegyeong 內經
Source원문
氣鬱胸脇痛, 看其脈澁, 當作鬱治也. 《丹心》
Translation영역
Where qi depression gives chest and flank pain, look for a rough pulse and treat it as depression.
Dansim 丹心
6.4 Flank Pain Has Five Causes 脇痛有五
Source원문
脇痛者, 肝火盛, 木氣實也. 《醫鑑》
Translation영역
Flank pain is liver fire exuberant and the wood qi replete.
Uigam 醫鑑
Source원문
肝苦急, 是其氣有餘. 急食辛以散之, 宜用川芎ㆍ蒼朮ㆍ靑皮. 《丹心》
Translation영역
The liver suffers from tension — that is its qi in surplus. Quickly eat acrid things to disperse it: chuanxiong, atractylodes lancea and green tangerine peel are appropriate.
Clinical note임상 주석
The Liver chapter's 2.10.1 gave the Suwen's rule — the liver wishes to disperse, so feed it acrid things — and here Danxi names the three the flank formulas actually use.
Dansim 丹心
Translation영역
Where liver fire is exuberant and both flanks pain so that one cannot stretch out, first stick Amber Paste formula in the Accumulations chapter on the painful place, then swallow honey pills of Angelica, Gentian and Aloe Pill formula in the Five Viscera chapter with ginger decoction — best of all. This medicine made as honey pills is for treating flank pain.
Dansim 丹心
Source원문
龍薈丸亦治飮食大飽ㆍ勞力ㆍ行房脇痛, 乃瀉肝火之要藥也. 《丹心》
Translation영역
Gentian and Aloe Pill also treats flank pain from eating to great fullness, from hard labour and from intercourse; it is the essential medicine for draining liver fire.
Dansim 丹心
Source원문
凡脇痛皆肝木有餘. 小柴胡湯方見寒門加靑皮ㆍ川芎ㆍ芍藥ㆍ草龍膽, 甚者入靑黛ㆍ麝香調服. 《正傳》
Translation영역
All flank pain is the liver wood in surplus. Minor Bupleurum Decoction formula in the Cold Damage chapter with green tangerine peel, chuanxiong, peony and gentian added; in severe cases stir in indigo and musk.
Jeongjeon 正傳
Source원문
凡脇痛, 有氣鬱, 有死血, 有痰飮, 有食積, 有風寒.
Translation영역
In flank pain there is qi depression, dead blood, phlegm rheum, food accumulation, and wind cold.
Clinical note임상 주석
Five causes, and the five sections that follow take them in turn. It is the chapter's skeleton, and the same five-cause scheme runs through the Bogam wherever a symptom can arise several ways.
Donguibogam · Hyeop
Source원문
肝熱鬱則脇必痛. 《入門》
Translation영역
Where liver heat is depressed, the flank will surely pain.
Immun 入門
6.5 Flank Pain from Qi Depression 氣鬱脇痛
Translation영역
Great rage with the qi counterflowing, and plans and deliberations that cannot be settled, both make the liver fire stir greatly and the flank pain unbearable. Angelica, Gentian and Aloe Pill is appropriate; in milder cases, Minor Bupleurum Decoction with coptis, oyster shell and bitter orange added.
Clinical note임상 주석
謀慮不決 — plans and deliberations that will not be settled. The Liver chapter made the liver the general who decides, and the Gallbladder chapter the official of decision; here the failure to decide is given as a cause of pain in their own territory.
Immun 入門
Source원문
性急多怒之人, 時常腹脇作痛, 小柴胡湯加川芎ㆍ芍藥ㆍ靑皮, 呑下龍薈丸, 甚捷. 《正傳》
Translation영역
In a person hasty by nature and often angry, the abdomen and flank pain from time to time: Minor Bupleurum Decoction with chuanxiong, peony and green tangerine peel added, used to swallow Gentian and Aloe Pill — very quick.
Jeongjeon 正傳
Translation영역
For flank pain from qi depression: Bitter Orange Boiled Powder, Aloeswood Downbear the Qi Powder, Bitter Orange Powder, Cinnamon Twig Decoction, Restore the Origin and Free the Qi Powder formula in the Qi chapter, Akebia Powder, Spirit Protecting Pill and Minor Gentian and Aloe Pill.
Donguibogam · Hyeop
6.6 Flank Pain from Dead Blood 死血脇痛
Source원문
因惡血停留於肝, 居於脇下而痛, 按之則痛益甚. 《丹心》
Translation영역
It comes of bad blood lodging in the liver and lying below the flank with pain; pressed, the pain is the worse.
Clinical note임상 주석
按之則痛益甚 — worse for pressing. The one sign that separates a blood pain from a qi pain, which eases under the hand. It costs nothing to test and the chapter relies on it.
Dansim 丹心
Translation영역
Static blood always returns to the liver channel; where the flank pains at night or breaks out in the afternoon, Minor Bupleurum Decoction combined with Four Substances Decoction, with peach kernel, safflower, frankincense and myrrh added. Where the stool is hard and black, Peach Kernel Order the Qi Decoction formula in the Cold Damage chapter purges it.
Immun 入門
Source원문
脇痛有死血, 用桃仁ㆍ紅花ㆍ川芎之類. 若跌撲脇痛者, 亦爲汚血流歸脇下而痛, 宜復元活血湯方見諸瘍之類. 《丹心》
Translation영역
Where flank pain has dead blood in it, use peach kernel, safflower, chuanxiong and their kind. Where the flank pain follows a fall or a blow, that too is foul blood flowing down to the flank and paining; Restore the Origin and Quicken the Blood Decoction formula in the Sores chapter and its kind are appropriate.
Dansim 丹心
6.7 Flank Pain from Phlegm Rheum 痰飮脇痛
Source원문
痰飮流注於厥陰之經, 亦能使脇下痛. 病則咳嗽氣急, 引脇痛. 《丹心》
Translation영역
Phlegm rheum flowing into the reverting yin channel can also make the flank pain; the disease then has cough and hurried breath, with the pain drawn to the flank.
Dansim 丹心
Source원문
咳嗽引脇痛, 爲懸飮, 宜十棗湯方見寒門. 《仲景》
Translation영역
Cough drawing pain to the flank is suspended rheum; Ten Jujubes Decoction formula in the Cold Damage chapter is appropriate.
Clinical note임상 주석
懸飮, suspended rheum — fluid hanging in the side of the chest, which is a pleural effusion. The cough that drags the flank, and Zhongjing's answer is the harshest purge in the book.
Junggyeong 仲景
Source원문
咳引脇痛, 宜疎肝氣, 用靑皮ㆍ枳殼ㆍ香附ㆍ白芥子之類. 《丹心》
Translation영역
Where cough draws pain to the flank, course the liver qi: green tangerine peel, bitter orange, cyperus and white mustard seed and their kind.
Dansim 丹心
Translation영역
For flank pain from phlegm pouring in, Control the Drool Elixir formula in the Phlegm chapter, swallowed with a decoction of Two Matured Ingredients Decoction with arisaema, chuanxiong and atractylodes lancea added.
Dansim 丹心
Source원문
兩脇走痛, 可用控涎丹. 《丹心》
Translation영역
For pain running through both flanks, Control the Drool Elixir may be used.
Dansim 丹心
Source원문
痰注脇痛, 漉漉有聲, 芎夏湯方見痰飮最妙. 《直指》
Translation영역
For flank pain from phlegm pouring in, with a gurgling sound, Chuanxiong and Pinellia Decoction formula in the Phlegm chapter is best.
Jikji 直指
Source원문
痰脇痛, 宜調中順氣丸.
Translation영역
For phlegm flank pain, Regulate the Centre and Order the Qi Pill is appropriate.
Donguibogam · Hyeop
6.8 Flank Pain from Food Accumulation 食積脇痛
Source원문
食積脇下, 如夾梗起一條作痛, 神保元方見氣門以枳實煎湯呑下. 《入門》
Translation영역
Where food accumulates below the flank, a single ridge stands up as if a stalk were held there, and it pains: Spirit Protecting Pill formula in the Qi chapter, swallowed with a decoction of immature bitter orange.
Clinical note임상 주석
如夾梗起一條 — a single ridge standing up like a stalk held under the ribs. A palpable linear firmness at the costal margin, and the one flank pain the chapter says can be felt as a shape.
Immun 入門
Source원문
發寒熱脇痛, 似有積塊, 必是飮食太飽ㆍ勞力所致, 須用當歸龍薈丸治之. 《正傳》
Translation영역
Where there is cold and heat with flank pain and what seems an accumulated lump, it must come of eating to great fullness and hard labour, and Angelica, Gentian and Aloe Pill should treat it.
Jeongjeon 正傳
6.9 Flank Pain from Wind Cold 風寒脇痛
Source원문
外感脇痛寒熱者, 小柴胡湯方見寒門加枳殼ㆍ桔梗. 《入門》
Translation영역
For flank pain from an external contraction with cold and heat, Minor Bupleurum Decoction formula in the Cold Damage chapter with bitter orange and platycodon added.
Immun 入門
Translation영역
For flank pain from an external contraction, Chuanxiong and Pueraria Decoction and Peony Powder are appropriate.
Donguibogam · Hyeop
6.10 Dry Flank Pain 乾脇痛
Source원문
虛甚成損, 脇下常一點痛不止者, 名曰乾脇痛, 甚危. 宜以八物湯方見虛勞加木香ㆍ靑皮ㆍ桂心. 有火去桂加山梔仁, 或吳茱萸水炒黃連. 《入門》
Translation영역
Where vacuity has gone so far as to become detriment and a single point below the flank pains constantly without stopping, it is named dry flank pain, and it is very grave. Eight Substances Decoction formula in the Vacuity Taxation chapter with costus, green tangerine peel and cinnamon heartwood added is appropriate; where there is fire, remove the cinnamon and add gardenia kernel, or coptis fried in evodia water.
Clinical note임상 주석
乾脇痛 — a dry flank pain: one fixed point that never lets up, in a wasted patient. The Immun calls it 甚危, very grave, and treats it by supplementing. A constant unremitting point of pain in someone losing weight is a presentation any clinician takes seriously.
Immun 入門
6.11 Flank Pain Has Vacuity and Repletion 脇痛有虛實
Source원문
肝氣實脇痛者, 手足煩躁不得安臥, 小柴胡湯加川芎ㆍ當歸ㆍ白芍藥ㆍ蒼朮ㆍ靑皮ㆍ草龍膽. 《入門》
Translation영역
Where liver qi repletion gives flank pain, the hands and feet are vexed and restless and one cannot lie quiet: Minor Bupleurum Decoction with chuanxiong, angelica, white peony, atractylodes lancea, green tangerine peel and gentian added.
Immun 入門
Source원문
肝氣虛脇痛者, 悠悠不止, 耳目𥆨𥆨, 善恐如人將捕, 四物湯加柴胡ㆍ靑皮. 《入門》
Translation영역
Where liver qi vacuity gives flank pain, it drags on without stopping, the ears and eyes are dim, and there is fear as though someone were about to seize one: Four Substances Decoction with bupleurum and green tangerine peel added.
Clinical note임상 주석
The Liver chapter's 2.8.2 exactly — dim eyes and the fear of being arrested — recalled here to tell an empty flank pain from a full one. The full pain is restless and the empty one just goes on.
Immun 入門
Source원문
兩脇下痛引小腹, 善怒, 是肝氣實也. 當歸龍薈丸以薑汁呑下. 《入門》
Translation영역
Pain below both flanks drawing into the lower abdomen, with readiness to anger, is liver qi repletion: Angelica, Gentian and Aloe Pill swallowed with ginger juice.
Immun 入門
Translation영역
In a person weak in qi, pain below the flank with a fine stringlike pulse mostly comes of overwork and anger. Eight Substances Decoction formula in the Vacuity Taxation chapter with costus, green tangerine peel and cinnamon heartwood added, decocted and taken; or use Immature Bitter Orange Powder.
Donguibogam · Hyeop
6.12 Flank Pain Divided Left and Right 脇痛分左右
Translation영역
For left flank pain, first stick Amber Paste on the painful place formula in the Accumulations chapter, then swallow Angelica, Gentian and Aloe Pill with hot ginger juice.
Immun 入門
Translation영역
For left flank pain, Bitter Orange and Chuanxiong Powder is appropriate, or Minor Bupleurum Decoction with chuanxiong, green tangerine peel and gentian added.
Jeongjeon 正傳
Translation영역
For right flank pain, Push the Qi Powder is appropriate, or Bitter Orange Powder formula above taken stirred into a decoction of ginger, green tangerine peel and scallion white, or Spirit Protecting Pill.
Clinical note임상 주석
The chapter's most practical distinction. The left is the liver's side and treated at the blood, the right the lung's and treated at the qi — and the two powders differ by one medicinal, chuanxiong against turmeric.
Deukhyo 得效
6.13 The Kidney's Evil Pressing Upward Makes Flank Pain 腎邪上薄爲脇痛
Source원문
一人患脇痛, 衆以爲癰. 陽脈弦, 陰脈澁, 投諸香薑桂之屬益甚. 項昕見之曰, 弦者痛也, 澁者腎邪有餘也. 腎上薄於脇, 不能下, 且腎惡燥, 今服燥藥過多, 非得利不愈. 先用神保元下黑溲, 痛止, 更服神芎丸. 或疑其太過, 昕曰, 向用神保元者, 以腎邪透膜, 非全蝎不能引導. 然巴豆性熱, 非得硝黃蕩滌, 後遇熱必再作. 乃大泄數次, 病遂愈. 《入門》
Translation영역
A man suffered flank pain and the physicians took it for a welling-abscess. The yang pulse was stringlike and the yin pulse rough; the aromatics, ginger and cinnamon they gave made it worse. Xiang Xin saw him and said: stringlike means pain, rough means the kidney's evil is in surplus. The kidney presses upward against the flank and cannot go down; and the kidney hates dryness, yet he has taken too many drying medicines — nothing but a purge will heal it. First Spirit Protecting Pill was used and black urine came down and the pain stopped; then Divine Chuanxiong Pill was taken. Some doubted this was too much, and Xin said: Spirit Protecting Pill was used because the kidney's evil had pierced the membrane, and nothing but scorpion can lead a medicine there; but croton is hot by nature, and without mirabilite and rhubarb to wash it out, it will break out again on meeting heat. So there was a great purging several times, and the disease healed.
Clinical note임상 주석
A case argued rather than reported: why the first physicians were wrong, why the purge was necessary, and why a second purge was needed after the first. Xiang Xin's reason for following a hot drastic with a cold one — that the heat left behind will restart the disease — is the kind of second-order reasoning the case records rarely give.
Immun 入門
6.14 The Pattern of Breath Accumulation 息積證
Source원문
詳見積聚門.
Translation영역
Treated in detail in the Accumulations chapter.
Donguibogam · Hyeop
6.15 The Pattern of Fat Qi 肥氣證
Source원문
詳見積聚門.
Translation영역
Treated in detail in the Accumulations chapter.
Clinical note임상 주석
肥氣 is the liver's accumulation — a mass under the left ribs, which the Accumulations chapter assigns to the liver as one of the five viscera's five masses. An enlarged spleen sits exactly there.
Donguibogam · Hyeop
6.16 Armpit Odour 腋臭
Source원문
一曰腋氣, 亦曰狐臭. 五更時取精猪肉二大片, 以甘遂末一兩拌之, 挾腋下至天明, 以甘草一兩煎湯飮之. 良久瀉出穢物, 須在荒野之外, 恐穢氣傳人也. 依法三五次卽愈. 其他密陀僧ㆍ胡粉之類, 皆塞竅以治其末耳. 《回春》
Translation영역
Also called armpit qi, and also fox stink. At the fifth watch take two large slices of lean pork, coat them with a nyang of powdered kansui, and hold them in the armpits until daybreak; then drink a decoction of a nyang of licorice. After a good while foul matter is purged out — this must be done out in open country, for fear the foul qi passes to others. Done so three to five times it heals. As for litharge, ceruse and the like, they only stop up the orifice and treat the branch.
Clinical note임상 주석
The kansui is absorbed from the armpit and purges; licorice, its classical antagonist, is drunk to meet it. 皆塞竅以治其末 — the powders only stop the opening and treat the branch: the Hoechun is distinguishing a deodorant from a cure, and choosing the harder route.
**Kansui is toxic. The pork is coated and held against the skin, not eaten.**
Hoechun 回春
Source원문
患此疾者, 耳內有油濕是也. 大田螺一箇, 水中養之, 候厴開, 以巴豆肉一粒, 鍼挑放在螺內, 仰置盞內. 夏月一宿, 冬則五七宿, 自然成水, 取塗腋下, 絶根. 《丹心》
Translation영역
One who suffers this has oily damp within the ears. Keep a large pond snail alive in water; when its operculum opens, lift a single croton kernel on a needle and put it inside the snail, and set it face up in a cup. In summer one night, in winter five to seven, and it turns of itself to a liquid; take this and smear it under the armpit, and the root is cut off.
Clinical note임상 주석
耳內有油濕 — oily damp inside the ear. Wet earwax and axillary odour are governed by the same gene, and a person with one very often has the other. The tradition noticed the association and used it as a diagnostic sign.
Dansim 丹心
Source원문
一方, 先用蜜脂塗腋下, 其出狐臭之處黃色, 就將前巴豆田螺去厴掩於狐臭之上, 絹帛勒緊, 其狐臭從大便出, 則絶根矣. 《丹心》
Translation영역
Another method: first smear honeyed fat under the arm, and the place from which the fox stink issues turns yellow; then take the croton and snail as above, remove the operculum, cover the spot with it and bind it tight with silk. The fox stink comes out in the stool, and the root is cut off.
Dansim 丹心
Source원문
大蜘蛛一箇, 鹽泥作一團包裹蜘蛛, 煆紅放冷, 取蜘蛛硏細, 入輕粉一字, 醋調成膏, 夕付腋下. 明日登厠, 必瀉下黑汁臭穢, 於僻處埋之. 《三因》
Translation영역
Take a large spider, wrap it in a ball of salt clay, calcine it red and let it cool; grind the spider fine, add 1 ja of calomel, mix with vinegar into a paste and apply it under the arm in the evening. Next day at the privy a black stinking fluid is surely purged out; bury it in a remote place.
Clinical note임상 주석
**Contains calomel (mercurous chloride), which is toxic and absorbed through the skin.**
Samin 三因
Source원문
以自己小便洗一次, 米泔洗二次, 生薑自然汁每日擦十次, 一月之後可以斷矣. 《回春》
Translation영역
Wash once with one's own urine and twice with rice-washing water, and rub in the natural juice of fresh ginger ten times a day; after a month it can be stopped.
Clinical note임상 주석
The one method here a person could use: ginger juice rubbed in daily for a month. Ginger is antibacterial, and axillary odour is made by bacteria acting on sweat — so of all the chapter's remedies this is the likeliest to have done something.
Hoechun 回春
6.17 Leaking Armpits 漏腋
Source원문
凡人腋下ㆍ手掌ㆍ足心ㆍ陰下ㆍ股裏常如汗濕, 汚衣, 宜用六物散.
Translation영역
Where a person's armpits, palms, soles, genitals and inner thighs are always damp as with sweat and spoil the clothes, Six Substances Powder should be used.
Clinical note임상 주석
Palms, soles and armpits together — the distribution of primary hyperhidrosis exactly, and the complaint the chapter records is the one patients still bring: 汚衣, it ruins the clothes.
Donguibogam · Hyeop
6.18 Simple Medicinals 單方
Source원문
凡七種.
Translation영역
Seven kinds in all.
Clinical note임상 주석
Seven simples — green tangerine peel, immature bitter orange, bitter orange, inula, saposhnikovia, cattail pollen and fresh ginger. The green tangerine peel entry carries the chapter's one caution about its own favourite: 靑皮乃肝膽二經之藥, it is the medicine of the liver and gallbladder channels and right for an angry person with depression under the ribs — but where the qi and blood of those two channels are insufficient, supplement the blood first and use only a little of it. The last entry is for fox stink, not for pain: ginger juice rubbed under the arm.
Donguibogam · Hyeop
6.19 Acupuncture and Moxibustion 鍼灸法
Source원문
脇痛, 取懸鐘ㆍ竅陰ㆍ外關ㆍ三里ㆍ支溝ㆍ章門ㆍ中封ㆍ陽陵泉ㆍ行間ㆍ期門ㆍ陰陵泉. 《綱目》
Translation영역
For flank pain, take Hyeonjong (懸鐘, GB39), Gyueum (竅陰, GB44), Oegwan (外關, TE5), Samni (三里, ST36), Jigu (支溝, TE6), Jangmun (章門, LR13), Jungbong (中封, LR4), Yangneungcheon (陽陵泉, GB34), Haenggan (行間, LR2), Gimun (期門, LR14) and Eumneungcheon (陰陵泉, SP9).
Gangmok 綱目
Source원문
脇幷胸痛不可忍, 取期門ㆍ章門ㆍ行間ㆍ丘墟ㆍ涌泉ㆍ支溝ㆍ膽兪. 《綱目》
Translation영역
For unbearable pain of flank and chest together, take Gimun, Jangmun, Haenggan, Guheo (丘墟, GB40), Yongcheon (涌泉, KI1), Jigu and Damsu (膽兪, BL19).
Gangmok 綱目
Source원문
胸脇脹痛, 取公孫ㆍ三里ㆍ太衝ㆍ三陰交. 《綱目》
Translation영역
For distending pain of chest and flank, take Gongson (公孫, SP4), Samni, Taechung (太衝, LR3) and Samumgyo (三陰交, SP6).
Gangmok 綱目
Source원문
腰脇痛, 取環跳ㆍ至陰ㆍ太白ㆍ陽輔. 《綱目》
Translation영역
For pain of lumbus and flank, take Hwando (環跳, GB30), Jieum (至陰, BL67), Taebaek (太白, SP3) and Yangbo (陽輔, GB38).
Gangmok 綱目
Source원문
脇肋痛, 取支溝ㆍ外關ㆍ曲池. 《綱目》
Translation영역
For pain of flank and ribs, take Jigu, Oegwan and Gokji (曲池, LI11).
Clinical note임상 주석
Jigu and Oegwan, both on the three burners channel of the forearm, appear in four of these six lines. They are still the first pair needled for a pain under the ribs, and they are reached without undressing the patient.
Gangmok 綱目
Source원문
兩脇痛, 取竅陰ㆍ大敦ㆍ行間. 《內經》
Translation영역
For pain in both flanks, take Gyueum, Daedon (大敦, LR1) and Haenggan.
Naegyeong 內經
About this translation 凡例
Base text: Donguibogam (東醫寶鑑, 1613 first edition), Outer Form, Volume 3, Flank chapter. The Chinese text is collated against the public-domain Wikisource transcription and a printed edition; original character forms (脉, 人參) are retained. Terminology follows Wiseman & Feng, A Practical Dictionary of Chinese Medicine. Translation and clinical notes are original to this site. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.