Formulas · Transform Phlegm 化痰 · Dansim (丹心)

Typhonium Pill

Baekbuja-hwan

한글 백부자환  ·  Pinyin Bai Fu Zi Wan

白附子丸

Composition 構成

Total 420 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 2 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Wind phlegm — dizziness with headache

Biomedical correlates

  • Vertigo
  • Migraine

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治風痰眩暈, 或頭痛. 白附子(炮)ㆍ天南星(炮)ㆍ半夏(薑製)ㆍ旋覆花ㆍ甘菊ㆍ天麻ㆍ川芎ㆍ橘紅ㆍ白殭蠶(炒)ㆍ乾薑 各一兩, 全蝎(炒) 五錢. 右爲末, 生薑半斤取汁打糊和丸梧子大, 荊芥湯下五十丸. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats wind phlegm dizziness, or headache. Typhonium (blast-fried), arisaema (blast-fried), pinellia (ginger-processed), inula, chrysanthemum, gastrodia, chuanxiong, red tangerine peel, silkworm (stir-fried) and dried ginger 1 nyang each; scorpion (stir-fried) 5 don. Powder them; take the juice of half a geun of fresh ginger, beat it into a paste and bind into pills the size of a firmiana seed, and take fifty with schizonepeta decoction. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Du)

Clinical commentary 臨床

**Contains typhonium, arisaema and scorpion, all toxic.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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