Formulas · Tonify Yang 補陽 · Manbyeong Hoechun (萬病回春)

Secret Formula for Paralysis

Bibang

한글 비방 · Pinyin Mi Fang

秘方

The Bogam gives this entry no name beyond 秘方, secret formula; the id carries the chapter suffix to distinguish it from other entries of the same heading elsewhere in the book.

Composition 構成

Ugolsu Niu Gu Sui
牛骨髓 우골수 · Ox Bone Marrow

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Chief 君

one bowl of cooked ox marrow
Bongmil Feng Mi
蜂蜜 봉밀 · Honey

640 g
Deputy 臣

refined
Baengmyeon Bai Mian
白麪 백면 · White Wheat Flour

640 g
Assistant 佐

dry-roasted
Geongang Gan Jiang
乾薑 건강 · Dried Ginger

120 g
Envoy 使

dry-roasted and powdered

Total 1400 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient 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 paralysis with wonderful effect
Taken as a sweetmeat over long periods

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Vacuity with paralysis of the limbs
Marrow and sinew depletion

Biomedical correlates

Chronic paresis
Post-stroke convalescence

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治癱瘓如神. 熟牛骨內髓一椀, 煉熟蜜一斤, 二味濾過, 入炒麪一斤, 炒乾薑末三兩, 拌勻, 如彈子大, 一日服三四丸, 細嚼溫酒下, 大效. 《回春》

Translation

Treats paralysis with the effect of a spirit. Cooked marrow from within the ox bone, one bowl; refined honey, 1 geun — strain the two, add 1 geun of dry-roasted wheat flour and 3 nyang of dry-roasted dried ginger powder, mix evenly and form into balls the size of a bullet. Take three or four a day, chewed finely and sent down with warm wine, to great effect. — Manbyeong Hoechun 回春 (Donguibogam · Pung)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Not a medicine at all but a confection — bone marrow, honey, roasted flour and ginger, rolled into balls and chewed three or four times a day with wine. Under the tradition's reasoning, marrow replenishes marrow and the sinews follow; read plainly, it is a dense, palatable high-fat high-sugar food for a bedbound patient who is not eating. For post-stroke undernutrition that is a more useful intervention than most of what precedes it in the chapter, and the Hoechun's claim of wonderful effect is probably honest about what it saw. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.