Formulas · Dispel Wind-Damp 祛風濕 · Uirim Jipyo (醫林集要)

Tangkuei Powder for Ironing

Danggwi-san

한글 당귀산 · Pinyin Dang Gui San

當歸散

Registered with the chapter suffix to distinguish it from the 當歸散 of the Women's chapter. The substitution note recommending 椒葉 for 頑荊葉 is the Bogam's own; vitex leaf was held to be mildly toxic.

Composition 構成

Bangpung Fang Feng
防風 방풍 · Siler

40 g
Chief 君
Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

40 g
Chief 君
Gobon Gao Ben
藁本 고본 · Ligusticum Root

40 g
Deputy 臣
Dokhwal Du Huo
獨活 독활 · Aralia

40 g
Deputy 臣
Hyeonggae Jing Jie
荊芥 형개 · Schizonepeta

40 g
Deputy 臣
Wanhyeongyeop Wan Jing Ye
頑荊葉 완형엽 · Vitex Leaf

40 g
Assistant 佐
Yeom Yan
鹽 염 · Salt

160 g
Envoy 使

four nyang

Total 400 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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

For ironing and searing cold damp painful wind
Heated with salt in a bag and pressed on the painful place

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Cold damp pain treated externally
Wind cold damp with fixed pain

Biomedical correlates

Osteoarthritis pain
Chronic musculoskeletal pain

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

熨烙寒濕痛風. 防風ㆍ當歸ㆍ藁本ㆍ獨活ㆍ荊芥穗ㆍ頑荊葉各一兩. 右粗末一兩, 鹽四兩, 同炒熱, 袋盛熨之, 冷則易. 《醫林》 ○宜去頑荊葉, 代椒葉亦佳.

Translation

For ironing and searing cold damp painful wind. Saposhnikovia, tangkuei, ligusticum sinense, pubescent angelica, schizonepeta spike and vitex leaf, 1 nyang each. Take 1 nyang of the coarse powder with 4 nyang of salt, stir-fry together until hot, put into a bag and iron with it; when it cools, change it. It is well to leave out the vitex leaf and substitute sichuan pepper leaf, which is also good. — Uirim Jipyo 醫林 (Donguibogam · Pung)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The milder of the chapter's two hot compresses, and the one worth keeping: six ordinary aromatic herbs with four parts salt, heated and bagged, with no aconite or scorpion in it at all. The Bogam adds its own substitution — leave out the vitex leaf and use sichuan pepper leaf instead — which is the compiler intervening on grounds of safety, and one of the few places in the chapter he does so. A reproducible and genuinely useful preparation for a cold aching joint. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.