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Asafoetida Pill

Aui-won

한글 아위원  ·  Pinyin A Wei Yuan

阿魏元

Composition 構成

Total 196 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Accumulation from eating too much flour food or raw fruit
  • Abdominal pain with retching and nausea
  • Meat accumulation

Biomedical correlates

  • Acute food retention
  • Functional dyspepsia after dietary excess

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

食麪食生果過多, 不能剋化, 致成積, 腹痛嘔惡, 亦治肉積. 阿魏(酒浸化)ㆍ桂皮ㆍ蓬朮ㆍ麥芽(炒)ㆍ神麴(炒)ㆍ蘿葍子ㆍ靑皮ㆍ白朮ㆍ乾薑 各五錢, 百草霜 三錢, 巴豆 三七粒去皮油. 右爲末, 薄糊和丸菉豆大. 薑湯下二三十丸, 麪傷用麪湯呑下, 生果菜傷以麝香湯下. 《得效》

Translation

For eating too much flour food or raw fruit so that it cannot be transformed and becomes an accumulation, with abdominal pain, retching and nausea; it also treats meat accumulation. Asafoetida (wine-steeped until dissolved), cinnamon bark, curcuma, barley sprout (stir-fried), medicated leaven (stir-fried), radish seed, green tangerine peel, white atractylodes and dry ginger 5 don each; stove soot 3 don; croton 21 kernels, skin and oil removed. Powder them, make pills with thin paste the size of a mung bean, and take twenty or thirty down with ginger decoction; for damage from flour take them down with flour broth, and for damage from raw fruit and vegetables with musk decoction. — Seui Deukhyobang 得效 (Donguibogam · Jeokchwi)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The vehicle changes with the offending food: flour broth for damage from flour, musk decoction for raw fruit and vegetables. That is the same courier logic as the binder table appended to Cheongeumjimi-hwan in the Phlegm-Rheum chapter at 6.20.6 — the medicine is constant and what carries it is chosen for the target. Asafoetida is the section's specific for meat accumulation and appears again in the pill that follows. Its resinous, intensely fetid character is what the tradition reads as able to break down flesh. **Contains croton, which is toxic. Not suitable for self-administration.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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