Formulas · Warm the Interior 溫裏 · Dangye Simbeop (丹溪心法)

Dried Ginger and Aconite Decoction

Gangbu-tang

한글 강부탕 · Pinyin Jiang Fu Tang

薑附湯

Registered with a suffix to distinguish it from 羌附湯, which shares its romanization. The note that raw aconite makes it Baektong-tang is the source's own, though that formula as given below also has scallion white.

Composition 構成

Geongang Gan Jiang
乾薑 건강 · Dried Ginger

40 g
Chief 君

blast-fried
Buja Fu Zi
附子 부자 · Prepared Aconite

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Chief 君

one root, blast-fried · toxic

Total 40 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 the yin patterns of cold damage and cold stroke
Two drugs to restore the yang

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Yang collapse with cold in the three yin
Cold stroke with cold limbs

Biomedical correlates

Hypothermia
Circulatory collapse with cold extremities

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治傷寒陰證及中寒. 乾薑(炮) 一兩, 附子(炮) 一枚. 右剉, 取五錢, 水煎服. 《丹心》 ○附子生用, 名曰<a href='/formulas/baektong-tang'>白通湯</a>《方見下》.

Translation

Treats the yin patterns of cold damage, and cold stroke. Blast-fried dried ginger, 1 nyang; one blast-fried aconite root. Cut up and take 5 don, decocted in water. With the aconite used raw it is called Baektong-tang. — Dangye Simbeop 丹心 (Donguibogam · Han)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Two drugs, and they are the tradition's irreducible pair for a collapsed yang: blast-fried ginger to warm the middle and aconite to recover the source. The variation recorded at the end is the point of the entry — the same two drugs with the aconite raw instead of processed become a different and stronger formula with a different name, which is as clear a statement as the book makes that processing, not composition, is what distinguishes these prescriptions. Aconite is toxic and this is the blast-fried form; the raw version should not be prepared. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.