Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Seui Deukhyobang (世醫得效方)
Sulphur Ointment for the Face
Yuhwang-go
한글 유황고 (면) · Pinyin Liu Huang Gao
膩粉 is 輕粉, calomel — mercurous chloride. The 湯液篇 entry for 輕粉 gives 亦名膩粉 among its alternative names (一名汞粉, 一名水銀粉, 亦名膩粉, 或曰峭粉. 飛煉水銀而成), while 胡粉, white lead, is 一名定粉, 一名光粉, 一名瓦粉 and does not take it. The corpus formerly entered 膩粉 as 胡粉 here and in five other leaves; that reading is withdrawn. The 官粉 of 白附子散, the next leaf in this section, is a genuine 胡粉 and is unaffected.
Composition 構成
- Yuhwang硫黃 유황 · Sulphur2 g
Chief 君raw, 5 pun
- Baekji白芷 백지 · Dahurian Angelica2 g
Deputy 臣5 pun
- Gwarugeun瓜蔞根 과루근 · Trichosanthes Root2 g
Deputy 臣瓜蔞根, 5 pun
- Gyeongbun輕粉 경분 · Calomel (toxic)2 g
Deputy 臣膩粉, 5 pun · calomel, mercurous chloride, toxic
- Jeongal全蠍 전갈 · Scorpion (toxic)—
Assistant 佐3 scorpions · toxic
- Seontoe蟬退 선퇴 · Cicada Moulting—
Assistant 佐蟬殼, 5
- Woncheong芫靑 원청 · Chinese Blister Beetle (highly toxic)—
Assistant 佐莞靑, 7, wings and feet removed · toxic
- Cheongyu淸油 청유 · Clear Sesame Oil—
Envoy 使香油 with beeswax, as the ointment base
- Hwangnap黃蠟 황랍 · Beeswax—
Envoy 使melted with the oil
Total 8 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 5 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.
Received this formula from your practitioner? Amounts shown here are classical reference values — granule and prepared products differ. Always follow your prescribed dosage and directions.
Actions 效能
- Treats sores on the face
- a red-purple nose
- and wind and flour pimples where other medicines have failed
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Facial sores
- red nose
- acne
Biomedical correlates
- Acne vulgaris
- Rosacea — external use
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治面上生瘡, 或鼻中赤紫, 及風刺粉刺, 諸藥不效. 生硫黃ㆍ白芷ㆍ瓜蔞根ㆍ膩粉 各半錢, 全蝎 三箇, 蟬殼 五枚, 莞靑 七箇(去翅足). 右爲末, 先以香油ㆍ黃蠟和合如面油法, 火上熔熬取下, 乃入藥末在內和勻. 每用少許, 臨臥洗面後塗面上, 勿近眼. 數日赤自消, 風刺粉刺一夕見效. 《得效》
Translation
Treats sores on the face, or a red-purple nose, and wind and flour pimples where no medicine has answered. Raw sulphur, angelica dahurica, trichosanthes root and calomel half a don each; three whole scorpions; five cicada sloughs; seven blister beetles with wings and feet removed. Powder them; first melt sesame oil and beeswax together as for a face oil, take it off the fire and stir the powder in evenly. Take a little at a time, apply to the face at bedtime after washing, and keep it from the eyes. In a few days the redness disperses of itself, and for wind and flour pimples one night shows the effect. — Seui Deukhyobang 得效 (Donguibogam · Myeon)