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Aconite Powder

Buja-san

한글 부자산 · Pinyin Fu Zi San

附子散

Composition 構成

Buja Fu Zi
附子 부자 · Prepared Aconite

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Chief 君

one large root, quenched in ginger juice until half a bowl is taken up · toxic
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

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Deputy 臣

half a bowl of the natural juice, taken up by the quenching
Jeonghyang Ding Xiang
丁香 정향 · Clove

4 g
Assistant 佐

optional, powdered with the rest
Songmi Su Mi
粟米 속미 · Foxtail Millet

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Envoy 使

as a gruel-water vehicle

Total g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 3 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 stomach reflux

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Stomach reflux from vacuity cold of the stomach

Biomedical correlates

Gastroparesis with cold — historical treatment

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治反胃. 大附子一箇, 坐於磚上, 四面着火漸逼, 淬入生薑汁中, 又灸又淬之, 可盡汁半椀許, 擣爲末, 粟米飮調下一錢, 不過三服差. 或加丁香一錢同爲末. 《入門》

Translation

Treats stomach reflux. One large aconite root: set it on a brick, bring fire to it on all four sides so that it is driven in by degrees, and quench it in fresh ginger juice; roast it and quench it again, until about half a bowl of the juice has been taken up. Pound it to a powder and give 1 don stirred into millet gruel water; not more than three doses are needed for a cure. Or add 1 don of cloves and powder them together. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Guto)

Clinical commentary 臨床

**Contains aconite, which is toxic. This must not be prepared.** Repeated roasting and quenching in ginger juice is a processing method meant to reduce the toxicity, and the fact that the Bogam gives so elaborate a procedure is itself a measure of how dangerous the raw root was known to be; it does not make the product safe. The vehicle is millet gruel water, as in Talmyeong-dan above — the chapter reaches for starch water whenever it has to get something into a stomach that will not hold food. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.