Shout Her Awake Powder

Galgi-san

한글 갈기산 · Pinyin He Qi San

喝起散

The source gives no weight for the drug; the figure here is nominal, and the dose it states is 2 don in wine. The plant is entered under 蒼耳子 in the herb list, the young shoots being the part used here.

Composition 構成

Changija Cang Er Zi
蒼耳子 창이자 · Cocklebur Fruit

40 g
Chief 君

蒼耳嫩心, the young shoots, dried in the shade

Total 40 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

Raises a woman who has fainted from blood wind assailing the brain
Reaches the crown with a single drug

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Blood wind assailing the brain with sudden collapse
Fainting with dizziness in a woman

Biomedical correlates

Historically used for syncope and eclamptic collapse
Recorded for historical reference only

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

婦人血風攻腦, 忽暈倒, 取嫩心陰乾爲末, 酒服二錢, 名喝起散. 《本草》

Translation

Where a woman's blood wind assails the brain and she suddenly faints and falls: take the young hearts of the cocklebur plant, dry them in the shade, powder them, and take 2 don in wine. It is called Galgi-san. — Boncho 本草 (Donguibogam · Du)

Clinical commentary 臨床

喝起, to shout someone awake, and the name is what the formula is meant to do. 血風攻腦 with sudden collapse is a vasovagal faint or an eclamptic one, and a woman in late pregnancy who faints needs her blood pressure taken rather than a powder in wine. Cocklebur earns its place here by the chapter's claim that it 善通頂門, opens through the crown — the Bogam treats a few drugs as able to reach the top of the head, and this is the clearest case. The seedlings and burrs contain carboxyatractyloside and are hepatotoxic in quantity. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.