Formulas · Warm the Interior 溫裏 · Taepyeong Hyemin Hwaje Gukbang (太平惠民和劑局方)

Great Normalizing Powder

Daesun-san

한글 대순산 · Pinyin Da Shun San

大順散

The staged sand-frying is unusual and is given in full: licorice first, then ginger, then apricot kernel, each added to the hot sand in turn, with the cassia added raw at the end so its volatile oil is not driven off.

Composition 構成

Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

80 g
Chief 君

cut into inch lengths and fried yellow with white sand
Geongang Gan Jiang
乾薑 건강 · Dried Ginger

16 g
Chief 君

fried with the licorice until it splits
Haengin Xing Ren
杏仁 행인 · Apricot Kernel

16 g
Deputy 臣

fried yellow with the ginger
Yukgye Rou Gui
肉桂 육계 · Cinnamon Bark

16 g
Deputy 臣

added last, not fried

Total 128 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Treats vexing thirst in the summer months with excessive drinking so that cold damp lodges in the spleen and stomach and causes vomiting and diarrhoea
Warms the middle against cold taken in to relieve heat

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Cold damp lodged in the spleen and stomach from cold drinks in summer
Yin cold within from excessive cooling

Biomedical correlates

Gastroenteritis after cold drinks
Cold-induced gastric stasis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治暑月煩渴ㆍ引飮過多ㆍ脾胃停冷濕ㆍ作吐瀉. 甘草(剉, 長一寸) 二兩, 乾薑ㆍ杏仁ㆍ肉桂各四錢. 先將甘草以白沙同炒黃熟, 次入薑同炒令裂, 次入杏仁同炒黃, 用篩下去沙淨, 乃入桂爲末, 每二錢, 水煎溫服. 如煩躁, 井華水調下. 《局方》

Translation

Treats vexing thirst in the summer months with drinking in excess, so that cold damp lodges in the spleen and stomach and causes vomiting and diarrhoea. Licorice, cut into one-inch lengths, 2 nyang; dried ginger, apricot kernel and cassia bark, 4 don each. First take the licorice and fry it with white sand until yellow and done; next add the ginger and fry together until it splits; next add the apricot kernel and fry together until yellow; sift out and discard the sand, then add the cassia and powder it. 2 don each time, decocted in water and taken warm. If there is vexation and agitation, take it stirred into first-drawn well water. — Gukbang 局方 (Donguibogam · Seo)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The chapter's paradox formula, and the reasoning behind it is the most interesting in the section: a man suffers in the heat, drinks cold water and eats cold food to relieve it, and gives himself a cold stomach — so the treatment for his summer illness is a warming one. Dried ginger, cassia and licorice against cold in the middle burner is the correct answer to that, and the instruction to take it in cold well water if the patient is agitated shows a compounder covering both halves of the contradiction at once. The sand-frying is good pharmacy: hot sand gives even dry heat without scorching, and adding the cassia only after the sand is sifted out protects its aromatic oil. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.