Formulas · Dispel Wind 祛風 · Seui Deukhyobang (世醫得效方)

Typhonium Powder for Brain Wind

Baekbuja-san

한글 백부자산 (뇌풍) · Pinyin Bai Fu Zi San

白附子散

Not the Uigam formula for the face registered as baekbuja-san-myeon; the two share a name only.

Composition 構成

Baekbuja Bai Fu Zi
白附子 백부자 · Typhonium Rhizome

40 g
Chief 君

· toxic
Mahwang Ma Huang
麻黃 마황 · Ephedra

20 g
Deputy 臣

the nodes left on, 5 don
Cheono Chuan Wu
川烏 천오 · Aconite Main Root

20 g
Deputy 臣

5 don · toxic
Namseong Tian Nan Xing
天南星 천남성 · Arisaema

20 g
Deputy 臣

5 don · toxic
Geongang Gan Jiang
乾薑 건강 · Dried Ginger

10 g
Deputy 臣

2 don 5 pun
Jusa Zhu Sha
朱砂 주사 · Cinnabar (toxic)

10 g
Assistant 佐

2 don 5 pun · toxic
Sahyang She Xiang
麝香 사향 · Musk (prohibited)

10 g
Assistant 佐

2 don 5 pun · CITES
Jeongal Quan Xie
全蠍 전갈 · Scorpion (toxic)

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Assistant 佐

5 scorpions · toxic
Ju Jiu
酒 주 · Wine

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Envoy 使

warm wine as the draught

Total 130 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 wind cold entering the brain so that it counterflows and the head aches and the teeth ache too
or it draws at both eyes and comes at last to blindness

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Brain wind reaching the eyes

Biomedical correlates

Severe headache with visual loss

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治風寒入腦, 令腦逆頭痛齒亦痛, 或牽引兩眼, 遂至失明. 白附子一兩, 麻黃(不去節)ㆍ川烏ㆍ南星各五錢, 全蝎五箇, 乾薑ㆍ朱砂ㆍ麝香各二錢半. 右爲末, 溫酒調五分服. 服訖去枕臥少時. 《得效》

Translation

Treats wind cold entering the brain so that the brain counterflows and the head aches and the teeth ache too, or it draws at both eyes and comes at last to blindness. Typhonium 1 nyang; ephedra with the nodes left on, aconite main root and arisaema 5 don each; five scorpions; dried ginger, cinnabar and musk 2 don 5 pun each. Powder them and take 5 pun stirred into warm wine; after taking it, lie down without a pillow a little while. — Seui Deukhyobang 得效 (Donguibogam · Du)

Clinical commentary 臨床

去枕臥少時 — lie down without a pillow a little while after taking it, so the medicine stays in the head. 遂至失明, coming at last to blindness, is the sign that makes this the chapter's gravest headache. **Contains typhonium, aconite main root, arisaema, scorpion and cinnabar, all toxic. This must not be prepared.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.