Formulas · Release the Exterior 解表 · Uihak Jeongjeon (醫學正傳)

Saposhnikovia Decoction for Lockjaw in the Exterior

Bangpung-tang

한글 방풍탕 · Pinyin Fang Feng Tang

防風湯

Registered with a semantic suffix to distinguish it from the 防風湯 of the Nose chapter and from the 防風湯 of the 三痺 section of this same chapter. 小蜈蚣散 is given in the <a href='/formulas/dae-ogong-san'>大蜈蚣散</a> entry and is not registered separately.

Composition 構成

Bangpung Fang Feng
防風 방풍 · Siler

5 g
Chief 君
Ganghwal Qiang Huo
羌活 강활 · Notopterygium

5 g
Chief 君
Dokhwal Du Huo
獨活 독활 · Aralia

5 g
Deputy 臣
Cheongung Chuan Xiong
川芎 천궁 · Cnidium

5 g
Deputy 臣

Total 20 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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 lockjaw while in the exterior and not yet entered the interior
Taken urgently as the vehicle for So-ogong-san

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Wind toxin in the exterior
Lockjaw in the early stage

Biomedical correlates

Early tetanus
Wound infection with early rigidity

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治破傷風在表未入裏, 急服此藥. 防風ㆍ羌活ㆍ獨活ㆍ川芎各一錢二分半. 右剉, 作一貼, 煎水, 調小蜈蚣散服之, 大效. 《正傳》

Translation

Treats lockjaw while it is in the exterior and has not yet entered the interior; take this medicine urgently. Saposhnikovia, notopterygium, pubescent angelica and chuanxiong, 1 don 2 fun 5 ri each. Cut up, make one packet, decoct in water, and stir So-ogong-san into it and take, with great effect. — Uihak Jeongjeon 正傳 (Donguibogam · Pung)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Four drugs at one weight, and its whole purpose is to be the vehicle for something else: decoct it and stir the minor centipede powder into the liquor. Formulas written to carry other formulas are common in the classical literature and are easy to mistake for weak prescriptions; this one is simply the wind-dispelling base on which the animal drugs were meant to ride. The staging — while still in the exterior, act urgently — is the section's organizing principle again. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.