Alum Powder for Wrapping Throat Wind

Baekban-san

한글 백반산 (전후풍) · Pinyin Bai Fan San

白礬散

Composition 構成

Baekban Bai Fan
白礬 백반 · Alum

12 g
Chief 君

3 don
Padu Ba Dou
巴豆 파두 · Croton Seed

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Assistant 佐

3, shelled and cut in six, fried with the alum and discarded · toxic
Gyeja Ji Zi
雞子 계자 · Hen's Egg

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Envoy 使

the white of a black hen's egg, to mix it

Total 12 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 2 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 wrapping throat wind and sudden throat closure — poured in or blown in

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Wrapping throat wind; acute throat closure

Biomedical correlates

Acute tonsillitis — external use

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治纏喉風及急喉閉. 白礬三錢, 巴豆三箇(去殼, 分作六片). 右銚器同炒, 候礬枯去豆, 取礬爲末, 水調灌下, 或吹入喉中, 或烏鷄子淸調灌入喉中. 《類聚》

Translation

Treats wrapping throat wind and sudden throat closure. Alum 3 don; three croton kernels, shelled and cut in six. Fry them together in a pan until the alum is calcined, discard the croton and powder the alum; mix with water and pour it down, or blow it into the throat, or mix with the white of a black hen's egg and pour it in. — Yuchwi 類聚 (Donguibogam · Inhu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The croton is fried with the alum and thrown away — the pharmacy's method for lending a violent drug's force without giving the drug, which the Flank chapter's Moktong-san uses the same way. **Croton is severely toxic; it is discarded and must not be swallowed.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.