Formulas · Dispel Wind 祛風 · Dongwon (東垣)

Atractylodes and Saposhnikovia Decoction

Changchul-bangpung-tang

한글 창출방풍탕 · Pinyin Cang Zhu Fang Feng Tang

蒼朮防風湯

Composition 構成

Changchul Cang Zhu
蒼朮 창출 · Black Atractylodes

24 g
Chief 君
Mahwang Ma Huang
麻黃 마황 · Ephedra

8 g
Deputy 臣
Bangpung Fang Feng
防風 방풍 · Siler

4 g
Deputy 臣
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

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Envoy 使

seven slices

Total 36 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 enduring wind become undigested-food diarrhoea
the patient not drinking water and the grain coming out whole

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Wind lodged in the intestines with undigested stool
No thirst with whole grain passed

Biomedical correlates

Malabsorption
Chronic diarrhoea

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治久風爲飱泄, 不飮水而糓完出. 蒼朮六錢, 麻黃二錢, 防風一錢. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑七片, 水煎服. 《東垣》

Translation

Treats enduring wind become undigested-food diarrhoea, the patient not drinking water and the grain coming out whole. Atractylodes, 6 don; ephedra, 2 don; saposhnikovia, 1 don. Cut up, make one packet, add seven slices of ginger, and decoct in water. — Dongwon 東垣 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Paired with the preceding formula by its indication: no thirst, where the other had thirst, and whole grain in the stool. Dongwon reads that as wind lodged in the gut and treats it by sweating — ephedra at 2 don in a diarrhoea is a startling prescription, and the logic is that the wind must be driven out at the surface before the bowel will hold. Modern practice would not sweat a patient with chronic diarrhoea, and the ephedrine would worsen the fluid loss; the pairing with Bangpung-jakyak-tang is nonetheless a genuine attempt at differential prescribing on a single sign. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.