Formulas · Transform Phlegm 化痰 · Jasaeng Gyeonghyobang (資生經驗方)

Agarwood and Pinellia Decoction

Chimhyang-banha-tang

한글 침향반하탕 · Pinyin Chen Xiang Ban Xia Tang

沉香半夏湯

沉香與附子等分 — the agarwood is weighed against the aconite rather than given an absolute amount, since one aconite root varies. Both are converted here at 1 nyang.

Composition 構成

Buja Fu Zi
附子 부자 · Prepared Aconite

—
Chief 君

one blast-fried root · toxic
Chimhyang Chen Xiang
沈香 침향 · Agarwood

—
Chief 君

equal in weight to the aconite
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

20 g
Deputy 臣
Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

8 g
Deputy 臣

processed
Namseong Tian Nan Xing
天南星 천남성 · Arisaema

4 g
Assistant 佐

blast-fried · toxic

Total 32 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 2 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 wind stroke with exuberant phlegm
Removes phlegm
wakens the spleen
harmonizes the qi and benefits the heart

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Phlegm with spleen yang vacuity after wind stroke
Cold phlegm with qi sinking

Biomedical correlates

Phlegm retention after stroke
Post-stroke anorexia

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治中風痰盛. 去痰ㆍ醒脾ㆍ和氣ㆍ益心. 附子(炮) 一隻, 沉香(與附子等分), 人參五錢, 半夏(製) 二錢, 南星(炮) 一錢. 右爲粗末, 每三錢, 水二盞, 薑十片, 煎至一盞, 空心服. 《資生》

Translation

Treats wind stroke with exuberant phlegm; removes phlegm, wakens the spleen, harmonizes the qi and benefits the heart. One blast-fried aconite root; agarwood, equal in weight to the aconite; ginseng, 5 don; processed pinellia, 2 don; blast-fried arisaema, 1 don. Make a coarse powder; for each dose take 3 don with 2 cups of water and ten slices of ginger, boil down to 1 cup and take on an empty stomach. — Jasaeng Gyeonghyobang 資生 (Donguibogam · Pung)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Five drugs and all of them warming, which marks it off from the cooling phlegm formulas that surround it. Agarwood weighed against the aconite is the striking instruction: a costly aromatic at the same weight as the chief warming drug, so that the yang being added is also moved downward rather than left to rise. Ginseng at five don holds the middle. The stated aims — wakening the spleen and benefiting the heart — point at the patient whose phlegm comes of a cold weak digestion rather than of heat, and for that case this is a better-reasoned formula than its neighbours. Aconite and arisaema are both toxic and are processed here, which is the minimum. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.