Formulas · Transform Phlegm 化痰 · Uibang Yuchwi (醫方類聚)
Scorpion and Musk White Pellets
Galsa-baegwonja
한글 갈사백원자 · Pinyin Xie She Bai Wan Zi
頻呵欠是應 — frequent yawning is the response — gives yawning as the sign that the medicine is acting, a prognostic marker not found elsewhere in the chapter.
Composition 構成
- Banha半夏 반하 · Pinellia280 g
Chief 君raw
- Namseong天南星 천남성 · Arisaema120 g
Chief 君raw · toxic
- Baekbuja白附子 백부자 · Typhonium Rhizome80 g
Deputy 臣raw
- Cheono川烏 천오 · Aconite Main Root40 g
Deputy 臣raw · toxic
- Cheonma天麻 천마 · Gastrodia40 g
Deputy 臣raw
- Bangpung防風 방풍 · Siler40 g
Assistant 佐raw
- Jeongal全蠍 전갈 · Scorpion (toxic)20 g
Assistant 佐raw · toxic
- Sahyang麝香 사향 · Musk (prohibited)2 g
Envoy 使CITES
Total 622 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
- Treats wind stroke with phlegm drool congesting and all wind diseases that other medicines cannot cure
- Taken until sweating comes and yawning begins
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Wind phlegm congesting the channels intractable to other treatment
- Paralytic wind with phlegm
Biomedical correlates
- Refractory stroke sequelae
- Phlegm obstruction with paralysis
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治中風痰涎壅塞, 一切風疾, 他藥不能療者. 半夏 七兩, 南星 三兩, 白附子 二兩, 川烏ㆍ天麻ㆍ防風 各一兩, 全蝎 五錢, 麝香 半錢. 右並生爲末, 薑汁糊和丸梧子大, 薑湯下三五十丸. 癱瘓風, 溫酒下, 日三服, 數日後當有汗, 便能舒展. 經三五日頻呵欠, 是應. 《得效》
Translation
Treats wind stroke with phlegm drool congesting and blocking, and all wind diseases that other medicines cannot cure. Pinellia, 7 nyang; arisaema, 3 nyang; typhonium, 2 nyang; aconite kusnezoffii, gastrodia and saposhnikovia, 1 nyang each; whole scorpion, 5 don; musk, half a don. All used raw and powdered, made into pills the size of a paulownia seed with ginger-juice paste, and thirty to fifty taken with ginger decoction. For paralytic wind, take with warm wine three times a day; after several days there should be sweating and the limbs become able to stretch. After three to five days there is frequent yawning, which is the response. — Uibang Yuchwi 得效 (Donguibogam · Pung)