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KMID : 0370220160600050272
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Yakhak Hoeji
2016 Volume.60 No. 5 p.272 ~ p.283
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History of Yi Myongrae's Semi-solid Ointment (Yi Myongrae Goyak®)
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Lee Young-Nam
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Abstract
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Over a hundred-year long history of Yi Myongrae's semi-solid ointment (Yi Myongrae Goyak®) was reviewed. Yi Myongrae Goyak®, which one would consider the first Korean traditional drug of modern times, was rooted on Seong Il-ron ( 성일론 ) ointment developed by Emil Devise (1871~1933, Korean name is Seong Il-ron), a Catholic priest of Paris Foreign Missions Society, who served over thirty-five years from 1895 at Gonseri Church, Asan, Chungcheong Nam-do. Devise's ointment made with his own special formular described in both Latin and Chinese was very helpful to many Korean suffered from pyogenic skin diseases. A teenage errand, Yi Myongrae (1890~1952) at Gonseri Church was apprenticed sev- eral years to Devise's special formular of herbal medicine and eventually open a cure-house named Yi Myongrae Goyak house at Gonseri in 1906. Since then, Yi Myongrae Goyak® became very popular for treating pyogenic skin disease such as furuncle, carbuncle, impetigo, ecthyma, etc and gained reputation as the cure-all (panacea) of various purulent skin dis- ease among Korean people even in 1980's. In 1920, Yi Myongrae' Goyak house® was relocated at Joongrim-dong, near Yakhyun Catholic Church in Seoul. Yi Myongrae Goyak house® became a family business succeeding to son-in law, Lee Kwangjin (1911~1996). A short time after National Liberation from Japanese Colony, Yi Myongrae' Goyak house® com- menced Chungjeongro period, by running the Goyak house®, Myongrae Oriental Clinic at Chungjeongro 3-ga 331 upto 1950's, at Chungjeongro 375-5 during 1960's-1978 and relocated at Chungjeong-ro 61-1 since 1978. These sites at a junction of three busy streets were just a few steps apart from each other. Yi Myongrae Goyak® has been succeeded into two lines: one was 'Original Yi Myongrae Goyak® house, Myongrae Oriental Clinic' run by doctors of oriental medicine, Lee Kwang- jin along with Im Jae-hyung (1944~) who is Lee's son-in law. This Myongrae Oriental Clinic closed currently is looking for a successor. The other line, Myongrae Pharmaceutical Co. at Lipjong-dong and Kwanchul-dong in Seoul operated from 1956 to 2002, by Yi Yongjae (1921~2009), a daughter of Yi Myongrae. Myongrae Pharmaceutical Co. had manufactured massively Yi Myongrae Goyak®, and distributed its product through local pharmacy. However, the full-right on Yi Myongrae Goyak®, owned by Myongrae Pharmaceutical Co. was transferred in a year of 2005 to Mr. Hwnag Kyu-Jang who has been a technical staff of Myongrae Pharmaceutical Co. for many years. Hwang had been in charge of production of Yi Myongrae Goyak® in cooperative with GP Pharmaceutical Co. Currently Mr Hwang is collaborating with JungWoo Pharmaceutical co.
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KEYWORD
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Yi Myongrae's semi-solid ointment (Yi Myongrae Goyak®), Catholic Priest Emil Devise, Korean traditional drugs of modern times, Cure-all (panacea) of purulent skin diseases, Original Yi Myongrae Goyak® house, Myongrae Oriental Clinic', Myongrae Pharmaceutical Co.
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