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KMID : 1149220200280030289
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Korean Journal of Oriental Medical Prescription
2020 Volume.28 No. 3 p.289 ~ p.300
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An Analysis of Clinical Characteristics on the Medical book of Koryo Dynasty, Hyang’yak Kug?ppang (鄕藥救急方, Medical Recipes of Local Botanicals for Emergency Use)
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Oh Chae-Kun
Kim Sang-Hyun
Yi Kie-Bok
Jeon Jong-Wook
Shin Dong-Won
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Abstract
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Objectives : In this paper, We pointed out medico-historical meaning of Hyang’yak Kug?ppang (鄕藥救急方, Medical Recipes of Local Botanicals for Emergency Use), a medical book of Kory? Dynasty, breaking from the existing analysis view based on Hyang’yak (鄕藥), local herbs produced in Korean Peninsula.
Methods : For that purpose, we analyzed the clinical characteristics of the diseases and symptoms, strategies of treatment, therapeutic tools, drug formulations, composition of herbal formulas in Hyang’yak Kug?ppang.
Results : The following characteristics were confirmed in Hyang’yak Kug?ppang. First, it contained a way to cope with the diseases and symptoms that do not have to check the exterior, interior, cold, and heat. Also, it introduced basic strategies such as reducing, facilitating flow, draining downward, warming, or tonifying, etc. It mainly included herbal medicine as the therapeutic tools, and introduced formulas composed by single herb than complex recipes. It suggested external applications more than internal use, and proposed formulations in the form of decoctions or powders, etc. The herbs of formulas were used by experience without explanations of nature & taste, efficacy of each herbs.
Conclusions : Hyang’yak Kug?ppang is a book of medical recipes for emergency use that has been distributed to help gentries, even if they do not have professional medical knowledge, to instantly cope with diseases and symptoms with medicines that are easy to obtain. Previous researches has analyzed the value of Hyang’yak Kug?ppang as a collection of information of hyang’yak, and used it as a historical basis of the uniqueness of Korean medicine. Since Hyang’yak Kug?ppang is not a book specialized for herbs, but rather a clinical medical book that introduces recipes for specific symptoms of diseases, if we pay attention to the clinical characteristics of Hyang’yak Kug?ppang, it will provide an opportunity to describe Kory? or Korean medicine in a new way.
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KEYWORD
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Hyang’yak Kuguppang (鄕藥救急方), Medical Recipes of Local Botanicals for Emergency Use, Hyang’yak (鄕藥), medicine of Koryo Dynasty, History of Korean Medicine
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