Green Cloud Powder

Nogun-san

한글 녹운산 · Pinyin Lu Yun San

綠雲散

The source gives no weight for the leaves; the figure here is nominal.

Composition 構成

Sangyeop Sang Ye
桑葉 상엽 · Mulberry Leaf

40 g
Chief 君

洗淨蒸熟日乾, washed clean, steamed through and sun-dried

Total 40 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Treats lung-toxin sores on the face
Cools the heat that breaks out on the skin

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Lung-toxin sores on the face
Facial eruption resembling the great wind sores

Biomedical correlates

Severe facial acne or rosacea
Facial dermatitis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

桑葉, 治面上肺毒瘡如大風瘡. 取葉淨洗, 蒸熟日乾爲末, 水調二錢服, 日三, 名綠雲散. 《本草》

Translation

Mulberry leaf treats lung-toxin sores on the face resembling the great wind sores. Take the leaves, wash them clean, steam them through, sun-dry them and powder them; take 2 don stirred into water, three times a day. It is called Nokun-san. — Boncho 本草 (Donguibogam · Myeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

綠雲, the green cloud, is the powder itself — the colour of dried mulberry leaf ground fine. 如大風瘡, like the great wind sores, is the chapter comparing the eruption to leprosy, which tells us how severe a face it was written for, and 肺毒, lung toxin, is its explanation: the lung governs the skin, so what breaks out on the face came from there. Mulberry leaf is cooling and mild and the preparation is a food; whatever it did, it did no harm. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.