Formulas · Warm the Interior 溫裏 · Uibang Yuchwi (醫方類聚)

Aconite Powder

Buja-san

한글 부자산 · Pinyin Fu Zi San

附子散

Named for its chief drug though the cassia, tangkuei and atractylodes stand at nearly the same weight.

Composition 構成

Buja Fu Zi
附子 부자 · Prepared Aconite

10 g
Chief 君

blast-fried · toxic
Geongang Gan Jiang
乾薑 건강 · Dried Ginger

4 g
Chief 君

blast-fried
Yukgye Rou Gui
肉桂 육계 · Cinnamon Bark

10 g
Deputy 臣
Danggwi Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

10 g
Deputy 臣
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

10 g
Deputy 臣
Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

4 g
Assistant 佐

processed
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

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Envoy 使

three slices

Total 48 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 the yin toxin of cold damage
Warms the interior and nourishes the blood

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Yin toxin with blood vacuity
Interior cold with cold limbs

Biomedical correlates

Hypothermia with anaemia
Cold collapse in a depleted patient

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治傷寒陰毒. 附子(炮) 二錢半, 桂心ㆍ當歸ㆍ白朮各二錢, 半夏(製)ㆍ乾薑(炮) 各一錢. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑三片, 水煎服. 《得效》

Translation

Treats the yin toxin of cold damage. Blast-fried aconite, 2 don 5 fun; cassia heart, tangkuei and atractylodes, 2 don each; processed pinellia and blast-fried dried ginger, 1 don each. Cut up, make one packet, add three slices of ginger and decoct in water. — Uibang Yuchwi 得效 (Donguibogam · Han)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The mildest of the yin toxin formulas and the only one with no mineral in it. Tangkuei alongside the aconite is what distinguishes it: the others force the yang and this one feeds the blood while it does so, which suits a patient who is cold because he is empty rather than because he is obstructed. Both aconites are blast-fried and the doses are moderate. Of this group it is the one a cautious practitioner would have reached for first. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.