Source원문
內經曰, 脾主肉. 又曰, 脾在體爲肉.
Translation영역
The Neijing says: the spleen governs the flesh. It also says: the spleen in the body is the flesh.
Naegyeong 內經
Formulas · Text · Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
Flesh
Yuk
한글 육 · Pinyin Rou
The flesh is the body's soil — why one person is fat and another thin, the man who eats well and gains nothing, the numb limb that cannot feel the quilt, and the warts taken off with spider's thread
肉
The flesh belongs to the spleen, and Dongwon puts it plainly: a person's flesh is as the earth's soil — how should a person be without it? When the flesh is wholly gone, they die. From there the chapter asks the question everyone asks. Why is one person fat and another thin? The Lingshu answers by looking at the sheen as well as the bulk: stout and glossy means qi and blood both in surplus, stout and dull means qi in surplus and blood short, thin and dull means both short. Liu Wansu adds that the fat bear cold and not heat and the thin the reverse, and explains why. Then two disorders worth the name: 食㑊, where food passes through and makes no flesh, and 肉苛, where the flesh is so numb and heavy that a quilt laid on it is still felt as a weight. The last third turns practical and slightly strange — growths of proud flesh taken down with sulphur, and warts tied off with spider's thread, rubbed with milkweed sap, or charmed away by planting seven soybeans on the seventh day of the seventh month. The twenty-four simples divide cleanly: twenty to make a thin person stout, and five to make a stout person thin.
8.1 The Flesh Belongs to the Spleen and Stomach 肉屬脾胃
Source원문
邪在脾胃則病肌肉痛, 是也. 《入門》
Translation영역
Where evil is in the spleen and stomach the disease is aching flesh — such is the case.
Immun 入門
Source원문
人之肉如地之土, 豈可人而無肉. 故肉消盡則死矣. 《東垣》
Translation영역
A person's flesh is as the earth's soil — how should a person be without flesh? So when the flesh is wholly wasted away, they die.
Clinical note임상 주석
The image the chapter is built on. Soil is what everything else grows out of and stands in, and the Spleen chapter made the spleen earth; here the consequence is drawn — a body without flesh has nothing left to stand on.
Dongwon 東垣
8.2 The Flesh Has Streams and Valleys 肉有谿谷
Source원문
黃帝曰, 願聞谿谷之會也. 岐伯曰, 肉之大會爲谷, 肉之小會爲谿. 肉分之間, 谿谷之會, 以行榮衛, 以會大氣. 《內經》
Translation영역
The Yellow Emperor said: I should like to hear of the meetings of streams and valleys. Qi Bo said: the great meetings of the flesh are valleys, the small meetings are streams. Between the divisions of the flesh, at the meetings of streams and valleys, the construction and defence move and the great qi gathers.
Clinical note임상 주석
谿谷 — the clefts between muscle bellies, named as though the body were a landscape: the large ones valleys and the small ones streams. It is where the acupuncture points are found, and the metaphor is exact enough that a hand looking for a point is looking for a hollow.
Naegyeong 內經
8.3 The Muscle-Masses Are the Flesh's Mark 䐃爲肉標
Source원문
䐃者, 肉之標也. 䐃謂肘膝後肉如塊者. 《內經》
Translation영역
The 䐃 are the mark of the flesh; 䐃 means the flesh behind the elbows and knees that lies in masses.
Naegyeong 內經
Source원문
五臟傷損, 䐃破肉脫, 皆爲不治之證也. 《內經》
Translation영역
Where the five viscera are damaged and detrimented, the muscle-masses broken and the flesh deserting, these are all untreatable patterns.
Clinical note임상 주석
破䐃脫肉 — the muscle-masses broken, the flesh deserting. The Liver chapter's 2.7.6 used the same phrase among the signs of the true viscus appearing, and it is the tradition's term for the wasting of the limb girdles that marks a terminal illness.
Naegyeong 內經
8.4 The Flesh Governs Fatness and Thinness 肉主肥瘦
Source원문
脾虛則肌肉削. 《東垣》
Translation영역
Where the spleen is vacuous the flesh is pared away.
Dongwon 東垣
Source원문
肥而澤者, 血氣有餘. 肥而不澤者, 氣有餘血不足. 瘦而無澤者, 血氣俱不足. 《靈樞》
Translation영역
Stout and glossy means qi and blood are in surplus; stout without gloss means qi in surplus and blood insufficient; thin and without gloss means qi and blood both insufficient.
Clinical note임상 주석
Not bulk alone but bulk with sheen. The Lingshu is separating a well-nourished stoutness from a puffy one, and a dull skin over a heavy body is still what a clinician looks at.
Yeongchu 靈樞
Source원문
血實氣虛則肥, 氣實血虛則瘦. 所以肥耐寒而不耐熱, 瘦耐熱而不耐寒者, 由寒則傷血, 熱則傷氣. 損其不足則陰陽愈偏, 故不耐也. 損其有餘者方得平調, 故耐之矣. 《河間》
Translation영역
Where the blood is replete and the qi vacuous one is stout; where the qi is replete and the blood vacuous one is thin. That the stout endure cold and not heat, and the thin endure heat and not cold, is because cold injures the blood and heat injures the qi. To reduce what is already insufficient makes yin and yang the more one-sided, and so it is not endured; to reduce what is in surplus brings things level, and so it is endured.
Clinical note임상 주석
Liu Wansu explaining an ordinary observation — that heavy people suffer in summer and thin ones in winter — by which of the two, qi or blood, each has to spare. Whatever one makes of the mechanism, the observation is right and he is the first to ask why.
Hagan 河間
Source원문
人之言曰, 血氣未動者, 瘠甚而不害. 血氣旣竭者, 雖肥而死矣. 則身之羸瘦, 若未足爲人之害者. 殊不知人之羸瘦必其飮食不進, 飮食不進則無以生榮衛, 榮衛無以生則氣血因之以衰, 終於必亡而已. 《資生》
Translation영역
People say: where the blood and qi are not yet stirred, one may be very lean without harm; where the blood and qi are already exhausted, one dies though stout — as if a wasted body were not enough to harm a person. What they fail to see is that a person's wasting must come of food and drink not going in; food and drink not going in, there is nothing to engender construction and defence; construction and defence not engendered, the qi and blood decline accordingly, and it ends in death, and that is all.
Jasaenggyeong 資生經
Source원문
羸瘦固瘵疾, 若素來淸臞者, 非有疾也. 惟病後瘦甚, 久不復常, 謂之形脫. 與夫平昔充肥, 忽爾羸瘦, 飮食減少, 此爲五勞六極之疾, 宜服滋補藥, 兼灸勞法. 《資生》
Translation영역
Wasting is indeed a consumptive disease — but one who has always been lean and spare is not diseased by it. It is where after an illness one is very thin and does not return to normal for long that it is called the form deserting; and where one was always full and stout and suddenly wastes with the appetite falling off, that is the disease of the five taxations and six exhaustions: enriching and supplementing medicines should be taken, with the moxa method for taxation as well.
Clinical note임상 주석
素來淸臞者, 非有疾也 — a person who has always been lean is not ill of it. The distinction is between constitution and change, and it is the right one: what matters is unintended weight loss in someone who was not thin before.
Jasaenggyeong 資生經
8.5 The Pattern of Food Passing Through 食㑊證
Source원문
內經曰, 大腸移熱於胃, 善食而瘦, 又謂之食㑊. 胃移熱於膽, 亦曰食㑊. 註云, 食㑊者, 謂飮食移易而過, 不生肌膚, 亦易飢也. 宜服參苓元. 《河間》
Translation영역
The Neijing says: where the large intestine moves heat to the stomach, one eats well and is thin — this too is called 食㑊. Where the stomach moves heat to the gallbladder, it is likewise called 食㑊. The commentary says: 食㑊 means that food and drink shift and pass through without engendering flesh and skin, and one is easily hungry as well. Ginseng and Poria Pill should be taken.
Clinical note임상 주석
飮食移易而過 — the food shifts and passes through. A good appetite, frequent hunger, and no weight gained: thyrotoxicosis and untreated diabetes both present this way, and the Suwen gives the syndrome a name and locates it in heat.
Hagan 河間
8.6 The Pattern of Numb Heavy Flesh 肉苛證
Source원문
黃帝曰, 人之肉苛者, 雖近於衣絮, 猶尙苛也, 是謂何疾. 岐伯曰, 榮氣虛, 衛氣實也. 榮氣虛則不仁, 衛氣虛則不用. 榮衛俱虛則不仁且不用, 肉如故也. 人身與志不相有, 曰死. 《內經》
Translation영역
The Yellow Emperor said: where a person's flesh is numb and heavy, so that even with a quilt of wadding close upon it it is still heavy — what disease is this? Qi Bo said: the construction qi is vacuous and the defence qi replete. Where the construction is vacuous there is no feeling; where the defence is vacuous there is no use of the part; where both are vacuous there is neither feeling nor use, and the flesh is as it was. Where a person's body and their will no longer possess each other, it is called death.
Clinical note임상 주석
雖近於衣絮, 猶尙苛也 — a quilt laid against it is still felt as a weight. Numbness with a sense of heaviness, and the Suwen separates the two components exactly: 不仁, loss of sensation, and 不用, loss of use. Any modern examination of a limb asks the same two questions.
Naegyeong 內經
Source원문
宜前胡散.
Translation영역
Peucedanum Powder is appropriate.
Donguibogam · Yuk
8.7 The Pattern of Flesh Wilting 肉痿證
Source원문
詳見足部.
Translation영역
Treated in detail in the Foot chapter.
Donguibogam · Yuk
8.8 A Woman Thin and Haggard 婦人瘦瘁
Source원문
宜服谷靈丸. 歌曰, 氣不充時血不榮, 肌肉不長瘦其身. 谷靈丸子服兩月, 頰紅肥大長精神.
Translation영역
Valley Spirit Pill should be taken. The verse says: when the qi does not fill, the blood does not flourish; the flesh does not grow and the body wastes. Take Valley Spirit Pill two months, and the cheeks redden, the body fills out and the spirit grows.
Clinical note임상 주석
A four-line verse instead of an indication. The Bogam does this where a formula came into Korea already attached to its jingle, and the verse is how a physician who could not read much would have remembered it.
Donguibogam · Yuk
8.9 Untreatable Signs of the Flesh Deserting 肉脫不治證
Source원문
形肉已脫, 九候雖調, 猶死. 《內經》
Translation영역
Where the form and flesh have already deserted, though the nine indicators are harmonious, death still follows.
Clinical note임상 주석
A normal pulse in an utterly wasted body is not reassurance. The Suwen's rule overrides its own diagnostics, and it is the reason the Pulse chapter tells a physician to look at the patient before feeling the wrist.
Naegyeong 內經
Source원문
皮膚着者死. 《內經》
Translation영역
Where the skin clings to the bone, death.
Naegyeong 內經
Source원문
脫肉身不去者死. 註曰, 穀氣外衰則肉如脫盡, 天眞內竭故身不能行, 去謂行去也. 《內經》
Translation영역
Where the flesh has deserted and the body cannot move, death. The commentary says: when the grain qi fails without, the flesh is as if wholly gone; when the heavenly truth is exhausted within, the body cannot walk — 去 meaning to walk away.
Naegyeong 內經
Source원문
形瘦脉大, 胸中多氣者死. 《內經》
Translation영역
A thin body with a large pulse and much qi in the chest — death.
Naegyeong 內經
Source원문
虛勞肉脫甚者難治. 《丹心》
Translation영역
In vacuity taxation, where the flesh has deserted severely, it is hard to treat.
Dansim 丹心
8.10 The Signs of the Flesh Expiring 肉絶候
Source원문
肉絶六日死. 何以知之. 耳聾, 舌背腫, 尿血, 大便赤泄, 是也. 《脉經》
Translation영역
The flesh expiring, death in six days — how is it known? Deafness, swelling of the back of the tongue, blood in the urine, and red diarrhoea.
Maekgyeong 脉經
8.11 Proud Flesh 贅肉
Source원문
亦曰努肉.
Translation영역
Also called straining flesh.
Donguibogam · Yuk
Source원문
諸瘡中努肉如蛇出數寸, 用硫黃細硏, 於肉上薄塗之, 卽便縮. 《本草》
Translation영역
Where proud flesh comes out of a sore like a snake, several chon long, grind sulphur fine and spread it thinly on the flesh, and it shrinks at once.
Clinical note임상 주석
Granulation tissue overgrowing a wound — proud flesh, and the name is the same in English farriery. Sulphur is caustic enough to take it down, and the tradition's other method, tying it off, is the next passage.
Boncho 本草
Source원문
瘡凸出寸許, 如小豆或大如梅, 取花脚蜘蛛絲, 以纏其根, 則漸乾而自脫落. 《綱目》
Translation영역
Where a sore protrudes about a chon, like a small bean or as large as a plum, take the thread of a flower-legged spider and wind it round the base: it dries by degrees and falls off of itself.
Gangmok 綱目
Source원문
贅疣以蜘蛛網絲纏之, 自落. 《本草》
Translation영역
A wart or growth wound round with spider's web thread falls off of itself.
Clinical note임상 주석
Ligation of a pedunculated growth — tie the base, cut off its blood, and it necroses and drops. It is still how a skin tag is removed, and the spider's thread is simply the finest ligature a household had.
Boncho 本草
Source원문
贅肉ㆍ瘜肉, 取初生小兒臍中屎塗之, 卽蝕盡. 《本草》
Translation영역
For proud flesh and straining flesh, take the matter from a newborn child's navel and smear it on: it eats it entirely away.
Boncho 本草
Source원문
諸瘡凸出, 烏梅肉搗爛作餠, 貼肉上, 立盡, 極妙. 《本草》
Translation영역
Where a sore protrudes, pound mume flesh to a pulp, make a cake and stick it on the flesh: it is gone at once — excellent.
Boncho 本草
Source원문
白梅肉同功, 貼贅肉ㆍ努肉, 幷佳. 《本草》
Translation영역
Salted plum flesh has the same effect; applied to proud flesh and straining flesh it is good for both.
Boncho 本草
8.12 Warts 疣目
Source원문
亦曰瘊子. 是人手足忽生, 如豆或如結筋, 或五箇或十箇相連而生, 皆由風邪搏於肌肉而變生也. 《類聚》
Translation영역
Also called 瘊子. These suddenly grow on a person's hands and feet, like beans or like knotted sinew, five or ten of them growing joined together; all arise when a wind evil strikes the flesh and changes it.
Clinical note임상 주석
Warts, described well enough to recognize: hard, bean-like, on hands and feet, and appearing in crops of five or ten together. That they spread is exactly what a viral wart does, and 風邪 is the tradition's word for a cause that travels.
Yuchwi 類聚
Source원문
多患於手足背及指間, 拔之則絲長三四寸許. 《入門》
Translation영역
They are commonest on the backs of the hands and feet and between the fingers; pulled out, a thread three or four chon long comes with them.
Immun 入門
Source원문
蒴藋赤子, 按使壞, 於疣目上塗之卽差. 《本草》
Translation영역
Press the red berries of elderberry until they break down, and smear them on the wart: it heals.
Boncho 本草
Source원문
苦菜折之, 有白汁出, 常點瘊子, 自落. 《本草》
Translation영역
Break a sow-thistle stalk so that the white sap comes out, and dab it on the wart repeatedly: it falls off of itself.
Clinical note임상 주석
The milky latex of a broken stalk, dabbed on daily. Several such saps — sow-thistle, spurge, fig, dandelion — have been used for warts everywhere, and the tradition's instruction is the same as the folk one: keep at it until it goes.
Boncho 本草
Source원문
取活螳螂放於疣上, 令蝕啖肉平爲度. 《醫林》
Translation영역
Set a live mantis on the wart and let it eat the flesh away until it is level.
Uirim 醫林
Source원문
七月七日, 取大豆一合, 拭疣目上三遍, 自手種豆於南屋東頭第二霤中. 豆生四葉, 以湯沃殺, 卽疣落. 《類聚》
Translation영역
On the seventh day of the seventh month take a hop of soybeans and wipe them over the warts three times; then with your own hand plant the beans in the second bay from the east end of the south house's eaves. When the beans have grown four leaves, scald them dead with hot water, and the warts fall off.
Clinical note임상 주석
A charm rather than a remedy, and the Bogam prints it without comment among the ointments. Warts resolve by themselves often enough, and slowly enough, that a method requiring weeks and a dead bean plant will seem to work.
Yuchwi 類聚
Source원문
蜘蛛網絲纏之, 自落. 《本草》
Translation영역
Wound round with spider's web thread, they fall off of themselves.
Boncho 本草
Source원문
烏鷄膽汁, 日三塗之, 妙. 《本草》
Translation영역
The bile of a black chicken, smeared on three times a day — excellent.
Boncho 本草
Source원문
牛口中涎, 數塗自落. 《資生》
Translation영역
The drool from an ox's mouth, smeared on repeatedly, and they fall off.
Jasaenggyeong 資生經
Source원문
杏仁燒硏塗之. 《資生》
Translation영역
Apricot kernel burnt, ground and smeared on.
Jasaenggyeong 資生經
8.13 Simple Medicinals 單方
Source원문
凡二十四種.
Translation영역
Twenty-four kinds in all.
Donguibogam · Yuk
Source원문
乾地黃 長肌肉, 肥健. 作丸服, 釀酒久服尤佳. 《本草》
Translation영역
Dried rehmannia (乾地黃): Grows the flesh and makes one stout and strong. Made into pills and taken, or brewed into wine and taken over a long time — better still.
Clinical note임상 주석
The whole of this section answers one complaint: 羸瘦, a patient who has wasted. The chapter's own 肉脫不治證 names the point beyond which the loss of flesh cannot be recovered, and these nineteen entries are what was given before that point. Read as history they are a record of famine and chronic illness; read as advice they amount to feeding someone who is not eating enough, which is still the treatment.
Boncho 本草
Source원문
薯蕷 長肌肉, 補虛勞羸瘦, 能肥人. 生者磨如泥, 和酪作粥服甚佳. 《本草》
Translation영역
Chinese yam (薯蕷): Grows the flesh, supplements vacuity taxation and wasting, and is able to make a person stout. Grind the fresh root to a paste, mix it with fermented milk, make a gruel and take it — very good.
Boncho 本草
Source원문
何首烏 治積年勞瘦, 能肥人. 末服丸服幷佳. 《本草》
Translation영역
Polygonum root (何首烏): Treats years of taxation and wasting and is able to make a person stout. Powdered or pilled, both are good.
Clinical note임상 주석
A caution the Bogam could not give: 何首烏 is a recognized cause of drug-induced liver injury and the raw root is the more hepatotoxic form. It is not a drug for the long courses this section recommends without liver monitoring.
Boncho 本草
Source원문
五加皮 療虛羸, 能肥人. 釀酒服, 或煎服幷佳. 《本草》
Translation영역
Acanthopanax bark (五加皮): Cures vacuity and wasting and is able to make a person stout. Brewed into wine, or decocted and taken, both are good.
Boncho 本草
Source원문
海松子 主虛羸, 令肥健人. 作粥常服甚佳. 《本草》
Translation영역
Pine nut (海松子): Governs vacuity and wasting and makes a person stout and strong. Made into a gruel and taken regularly it is very good.
Boncho 本草
Source원문
鮒魚 主虛羸, 能肥人. 作羹食蒸食皆佳. 《本草》
Translation영역
Crucian carp (鮒魚): Governs vacuity and wasting and is able to make a person stout. Made into soup or steamed, both are good.
Boncho 本草
Source원문
鼈 主勞瘦, 能肥人. 取肉作羹常食. 又取甲灸爲末, 酒服一錢. 《本草》
Translation영역
Soft-shelled turtle (鼈): Governs taxation and wasting and is able to make a person stout. Take the flesh, make a soup and eat it regularly. Or take the shell, roast it, powder it, and take 1 don in wine.
Boncho 本草
Source원문
芋 充肌膚, 令人肥白. 作羹常食甚佳. 《本草》
Translation영역
Taro (芋): Fills out the flesh and skin and makes a person stout and fair. Made into a soup and eaten regularly it is very good.
Boncho 本草
Source원문
胡麻 長肌肉, 肥健人. 蒸曝久服妙. 《本草》
Translation영역
Sesame (胡麻): Grows the flesh and makes a person stout and strong. Steamed and sun-dried and taken over a long time it is excellent.
Boncho 本草
Source원문
大豆黃末 補勞瘦, 肥健人. 煉猪膏和丸服之. 又雁脂和丸服亦可. 《本草》
Translation영역
Yellow soybean flour (大豆黃末): Supplements taxation and wasting and makes a person stout and strong. Make pills with rendered lard and take them. Or make pills with goose fat, which will also serve.
Boncho 本草
Source원문
大麥 滑肌膚, 令人肥健. 作飯作粥久服佳. 《本草》
Translation영역
Barley (大麥): Makes the flesh and skin smooth and a person stout and strong. As boiled grain or gruel, taken over a long time it is good.
Boncho 本草
Source원문
蔓菁子 令人肥健. 蒸曬作末, 酒飮任下二三錢. 其根作羹常食佳. 《本草》
Translation영역
Turnip seed (蔓菁子): Makes a person stout and strong. Steam it, sun-dry it and powder it, and take 2 or 3 don down with wine or any liquid. Its root made into a soup and eaten regularly is good.
Boncho 本草
Source원문
韭薤 俱能肥健人. 作葅常食幷佳. 《本草》
Translation영역
Chinese chive and chive bulb (韭薤): Both are able to make a person stout and strong. Made into pickle and eaten regularly, both are good.
Boncho 本草
Source원문
人乳汁 治瘦瘁, 令人肥白悅澤. 可久服之. 《本草》
Translation영역
Human milk (人乳汁): Treats wasting and exhaustion and makes a person stout, fair and fresh. It may be taken over a long time.
Boncho 本草
Source원문
人胞 卽胎衣也. 主血氣羸瘦, 能肥人. 蒸熟和五味食之, 或合滋補藥作丸久服尤佳. 《本草》
Translation영역
Human placenta (人胞): That is, the afterbirth. It governs wasting of the blood and qi and is able to make a person stout. Steam it through and eat it dressed with the five flavours, or combine it with enriching and supplementing medicines, make pills and take them over a long time — better still.
Clinical note임상 주석
Human placenta is not a tissue that can be dispensed or eaten: its use is prohibited in Korea outside licensed pharmaceutical preparation, and raw or home-prepared placenta carries a real risk of transmitting bloodborne infection. The drug stands in the record as 紫河車 and appears again in the Spirit chapter.
Boncho 本草
Source원문
牛乳 補虛羸, 肥健人. 作粥常食佳. 《本草》
Translation영역
Cow's milk (牛乳): Supplements vacuity and wasting and makes a person stout and strong. Made into a gruel and eaten regularly it is good.
Boncho 本草
Source원문
黃雌雞 治羸瘦着床, 能肥人. 煮爛作羹服甚良. 《本草》
Translation영역
Yellow hen (黃雌雞): Treats wasting to the point of being bedbound and is able to make a person stout. Boiled soft and made into a soup it is very good.
Clinical note임상 주석
羸瘦着床, wasted to the point of being bedbound, is the most advanced state this section names, and the answer is chicken soup boiled soft. For a patient at that stage, getting protein and fluid in is exactly the priority, and the same prescription appears in the Stool and Fire chapters for the same reason.
Boncho 本草
Source원문
羊肉 治瘦病, 能肥健人. 或煮或燒常食佳. 《本草》
Translation영역
Mutton (羊肉): Treats the wasting disease and is able to make a person stout and strong. Boiled or roasted and eaten regularly it is good.
Boncho 本草
Source원문
黑牛髓 治瘦病, 能肥人. 和地黃汁ㆍ白蜜 等分, 作煎服之佳. 《本草》
Translation영역
Black ox marrow (黑牛髓): Treats the wasting disease and is able to make a person stout. Mixed with rehmannia juice and white honey in equal parts, boiled down and taken it is good.
Boncho 本草
Source원문
茶 久服去人脂, 令人瘦. 太肥者可服. 《本草》
Translation영역
Tea (茶): Taken over a long time it removes a person's fat and makes them thin. One who is excessively stout may take it.
Clinical note임상 주석
The section turns here, and the last five entries are the reverse of the nineteen before them. They are recorded as the Bogam gives them and are translated for the record; the chapter attaches no quantity, no target and no schedule to any of them, and none should be read as a programme. 太肥, excessively stout, is the only indication offered.
Boncho 本草
Source원문
赤小豆 能瘦人. 久服令人黑瘦枯燥. 肥盛者可服. 《本草》
Translation영역
Adzuki bean (赤小豆): Is able to make a person thin. Taken over a long time it makes one dark, thin, withered and dry. One who is stout and full may take it.
Clinical note임상 주석
黑瘦枯燥 — dark, thin, withered and dry — is set down as what long use produces, and the chapter plainly does not mean it as praise. It is the one place in this group where the cost of the effect is stated alongside it.
Boncho 本草
Source원문
冬瓜 太肥欲得瘦輕健, 則可長食. 作羹作葅佳. 欲肥則勿食. 《本草》
Translation영역
Wax gourd (冬瓜): One who is excessively stout and wishes to become thin, light and strong may eat it over a long time. Made into soup or pickle it is good. One who wishes to be stout should not eat it.
Boncho 本草
Source원문
桑枝茶 逐濕, 令人瘦. 過肥者宜久服之. 《本草》
Translation영역
Mulberry twig tea (桑枝茶): Expels damp and makes a person thin. One who is excessively stout should take it over a long time.
Boncho 本草
Source원문
昆布 下氣, 久服瘦人. 作臛作菜常食佳. 《本草》
Translation영역
Laminaria (昆布): Brings qi down, and taken over a long time it makes a person thin. Made into a broth or a vegetable dish and eaten regularly it is good.
Clinical note임상 주석
Twenty-four simples, nineteen to put flesh on and five to take it off, and the proportion is the historical point: in the world this chapter was written for, wasting was the common and dangerous condition and stoutness the rare one. The chapter's own sections treat 肥 and 瘦 as two directions from a middle rather than as a good and a bad, which is the frame worth carrying away from it.
Boncho 本草
8.14 Moxibustion 灸法
Source원문
疣目, 支正灸之卽差. 《綱目》
Translation영역
For warts, moxa Jijeong (支正, SI7) and they mend.
Gangmok 綱目
Source원문
凡贅疣諸痣, 當其上灸三五壯, 卽差. 《綱目》
Translation영역
For any wart, growth or mole, moxa three to five cones directly on it and it mends.
Clinical note임상 주석
Moxa burnt on the lesion itself — cautery under another name, and the last of the chapter's several ways of removing a growth: caustic, ligature, sap, and finally fire.
Gangmok 綱目
About this translation 凡例
Base text: Donguibogam (東醫寶鑑, 1613 first edition), Outer Form, Volume 3, Flesh 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.