Formulas · Transform Phlegm 化痰 · Manbyeong Hoechun (萬病回春)

Chase the Wind and Dispel Phlegm Pill

Chupunggeodam-hwan

한글 추풍거담환 · Pinyin Zhui Feng Qu Tan Wan

追風祛痰丸

Composition 構成

Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

240 g
Chief 君

washed in hot water and made into two leavens, one with gleditsia juice and one with ginger juice
Cheonnamseong Tian Nan Xing
天南星 천남성 · Arisaema

120 g
Chief 君

half steeped overnight in alum water and half in gleditsia water
Bangpung Fang Feng
防風 방풍 · Siler

40 g
Deputy 臣
Cheonma Tian Ma
天麻 천마 · Gastrodia

40 g
Deputy 臣
Baekgangjam Bai Jiang Can
白殭蠶 백강잠 · Silkworm

40 g
Deputy 臣

stir-fried
Baekbuja Bai Fu Zi
白附子 백부자 · Typhonium Rhizome

40 g
Deputy 臣

roasted in ash
Jogak Zao Jiao
皂角 조각 · Gleditsia Pod

40 g
Assistant 佐

stir-fried
Jeongal Quan Xie
全蠍 전갈 · Scorpion (toxic)

20 g
Assistant 佐

stir-fried
Baekban Bai Fan
白礬 백반 · Alum

20 g
Assistant 佐

calcined to dryness
Jusa Zhu Sha
朱砂 주사 · Cinnabar (toxic)

—
Assistant 佐

as coating
Mokhyang Mu Xiang
木香 목향 · Costus Root

20 g
Envoy 使

Total 620 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

Dispels wind phlegm
Extinguishes wind and stops spasm
Opens the orifices and settles the heart

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Wind phlegm breaking out as epilepsy
Fits in a fat patient with much phlegm
Convulsion with foaming at the mouth

Biomedical correlates

Epilepsy
Convulsive disorders
Seizures with excess secretions

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治風痰發癎. 半夏(湯洗爲末, 稱六兩, 分作二分: 以一分皂角汁浸作麴, 一分薑汁浸作麴), 天南星三兩(剉, 一半白礬水浸一宿, 一半皂角水浸一宿), 防風ㆍ天麻ㆍ白殭蠶(炒)ㆍ白附子(煨)ㆍ皂角(炒) 各一兩, 全蝎(炒)ㆍ白礬(枯)ㆍ木香各五錢. 右爲末, 薑汁糊和丸梧子大, 朱砂爲衣, 薑湯呑下七八十丸. 《回春》

Translation

Treats wind phlegm breaking out as epilepsy. Pinellia (washed in hot water and powdered, weighed at 6 nyang and divided in two, one part steeped in gleditsia juice and made into leaven, one part steeped in ginger juice and made into leaven); arisaema, 3 nyang (cut up, half steeped overnight in alum water and half in gleditsia water); saposhnikovia, gastrodia, silkworm (stir-fried), typhonium (roasted in ash) and gleditsia pod (stir-fried), 1 nyang each; scorpion (stir-fried), alum (calcined to dryness) and costus, 5 don each. Powder them, make pills the size of a firmiana seed with ginger-juice paste, coat with cinnabar, and swallow seventy or eighty with ginger decoction. — Hoechun 回春 (Donguibogam · Sin)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The processing is the formula. Six nyang of pinellia split and fermented two ways, three nyang of arisaema split and steeped two ways — the point of which is to detoxify both drugs and, in the Hoechun's reading, to give each half a different reach. **Leave the cinnabar coating off.** What remains is a defensible wind-phlegm formula and the one 5.13 names first for the fat patient. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.