Formulas · Transform Phlegm 化痰 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Major Radish and Soapberry Pill

Daenajo-hwan

한글 대나조환 · Pinyin Da Luo Zao Wan

大蘿皂丸

蘿葍子 — the transcription writes 葍 for 蔔; the drug is the radish seed registered as 萊菔子. 便香附 is cyperus processed in urine.

Composition 構成

Nabokja Lai Fu Zi
萊菔子 나복자 · Radish Seed

80 g
Chief 君

dry-fried; written 蘿葍子 in the text
Jogak Zao Jiao
皂角 조각 · Gleditsia Pod

40 g
Chief 君

burnt with its nature preserved
Cheonnamseong Tian Nan Xing
天南星 천남성 · Arisaema

20 g
Deputy 臣

processed · toxic in the raw state
Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

20 g
Deputy 臣

processed · toxic in the raw state
Haengin Xing Ren
杏仁 행인 · Apricot Kernel

20 g
Assistant 佐
Gwaruin Gua Lou Ren
瓜蔞仁 과루인 · Trichosanthes Seed

20 g
Assistant 佐
Hyangbuja Xiang Fu
香附子 향부자 · Cyperus

20 g
Assistant 佐

processed in urine (便香附)
Cheongdae Qing Dai
靑黛 청대 · Natural Indigo

20 g
Assistant 佐
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

20 g
Assistant 佐
Singok Shen Qu
神麴 신곡 · Medicated Leaven

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Envoy 使

as a paste, for the pills

Total 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 qi panting and phlegm panting
wind phlegm
food phlegm
wine phlegm
and the toxin of wheat foods

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Phlegm panting of every kind
Food and wine phlegm with wheeze

Biomedical correlates

Chronic wheeze with sputum — historical treatment

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治氣喘ㆍ痰喘ㆍ風痰ㆍ食痰ㆍ酒痰ㆍ麪毒等證. 蘿葍子(炒) 二兩, 皂角(燒存性) 一兩, 南星ㆍ半夏(並製)ㆍ杏仁ㆍ瓜蔞仁ㆍ便香附ㆍ靑黛ㆍ陳皮各五錢. 右爲末, 神麴糊和丸梧子大, 薑湯呑下六七十丸. 《入門》

Translation

Treats qi panting and phlegm panting, wind phlegm, food phlegm, wine phlegm and the toxin of wheat foods. Dry-fried radish seed, 2 nyang; soapberry burnt with its nature preserved, 1 nyang; arisaema and pinellia, both processed, apricot kernel, trichosanthes seed, urine-processed cyperus, indigo and tangerine peel, 5 fun each — 5 don each. Grind to a powder, make pills the size of a paulownia seed with leaven paste, and swallow sixty or seventy down with ginger decoction. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Haesu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Radish seed and burnt soapberry at the head of it, and those two are the formula: radish seed breaks food accumulation and brings the qi down, soapberry is the tradition's drug for a phlegm too thick to be coughed up. The indication list is a catalogue of the phlegm kinds the chapter distinguishes, which is the point of a 大 formula — it is the one to reach for when the phlegm cannot be assigned to a single cause. **Contains arisaema and pinellia, toxic in the raw state and to be properly processed. Soapberry burnt to a powder is a strong irritant and an emetic in quantity.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.