Formulas · Dispel Wind-Damp 祛風濕 · Hagan Yubang (河間遺方)

Soybean Sprout Powder

Daedu-eol-san

한글 대두얼산 · Pinyin Da Dou Nie San

大豆糵散

The definition of 周痺 is from the Lingshu's Zhoubi chapter. 大豆糵 is the sprouted and dried soybean, 大豆黃卷 in the materia medica.

Composition 構成

Daeduhwanggwon Da Dou Huang Juan
大豆黃卷 대두황권 · Dried Soybean Sprout

600 g
Chief 君

one seung

Total 600 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Treats circuit impediment
which travels up and down with the vessels and cannot go left or right
A single simple taken three times a day in warm wine

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Circuit impediment moving along the vessels
Damp obstructing the blood vessels

Biomedical correlates

Migratory arthralgia
Polyneuropathy

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治周痺. 周痺者, 在於血脉之中, 隨脉以上ㆍ隨脉以下, 不能左右, 各當其所. 大豆糵一升, 炒熟爲末, 每一錢, 溫酒調下, 日三. 《河間》

Translation

Treats circuit impediment. Circuit impediment is within the blood vessels; it goes up following the vessels and down following the vessels, and cannot go to the left or the right, each part being where it belongs. Soybean sprout, 1 seung, stir-fried till done and powdered; 1 don each time, taken stirred into warm wine, three times a day. — Hagan Yubang 河間 (Donguibogam · Pung)

Clinical commentary 臨床

One drug for one named disease, and the name is the whole of its interest. Circuit impediment, in the Lingshu's definition quoted here, travels up and down along the vessels but never crosses the midline — which is a precise description of a symptom following a dermatome or a nerve rather than wandering at random. The treatment, roasted soybean sprout in wine three times a day, is a food, and the mismatch between the sharpness of the diagnosis and the mildness of the remedy is characteristic of the single-simple tradition. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.