Formulas · Transform Phlegm 化痰 · Haejang (海藏)

Issue the Voice Powder

Balseong-san

한글 발성산 · Pinyin Fa Sheng San

發聲散

Composition 構成

Gilgyeong Jie Geng
桔梗 길경 · Platycodon

30 g
Chief 君

half raw and half fried
Gwaru Gua Lou
瓜蔞 과루 · Trichosanthes Fruit

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Chief 君

one ripe fruit, cut up and baked dry
Baekgangjam Bai Jiang Can
白殭蠶 백강잠 · Silkworm

20 g
Deputy 臣

stir-fried (炒)
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

8 g
Envoy 使

stir-fried (炒)
Ju Jiu
酒 주 · Wine

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Envoy 使

as the draught

Total 58 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

Treats the speaking voice not coming out

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

The speaking voice not issuing

Biomedical correlates

Aphonia

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治語聲不出. 黃瓜蔞一箇(剉焙), 桔梗七錢半(半生半炒), 白殭蠶(炒) 五錢, 甘草(炒) 二錢. 右爲末, 每三錢, 溫酒調下, 或薑湯調下. 《海藏》

Translation

Treats the speaking voice not coming out. Ripe trichosanthes one fruit (cut up and baked dry); platycodon 7 don 5 pun (half raw and half fried); silkworm (stir-fried) 5 don; licorice (stir-fried) 2 don. Powder them and take 3 don at a time stirred into warm wine, or into ginger decoction. — Haejang 海藏 (Donguibogam · Seongeum)

Clinical commentary 臨床

半生半炒 — half raw and half fried, the device the chapter uses in three formulas: the raw half works on the surface and the fried half goes down, so one medicinal covers both. Silkworm is the tradition's medicinal for a throat shut by wind phlegm. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.