Formulas · Dispel Wind 祛風 · Uihak Gangmok (醫學綱目)

Dispel Wind Elixir

Geopung-dan

한글 거풍단 · Pinyin Qu Feng Dan

去風丹

豆淋酒 is wine in which black soybeans have been steeped; it is the vehicle, not an ingredient. The drying method — spread on a sieve suspended over water — keeps the duckweed from shrivelling. The Bogam's edition of the verse has a damaged character in 鐵僕.

Composition 構成

Bupyeong Fu Ping
浮萍 부평 · Duckweed

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Chief 君

gathered in the first half or on the fifteenth of the seventh month

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Actions 效能

Treats all wind diseases including paralytic wind
great wind and lockjaw
A single simple gathered in the seventh month and taken in black soybean wine

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Wind in the channels and skin
Wind toxin with paralysis

Biomedical correlates

Stroke sequelae
Leprosy
Tetanus

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治一切諸風, 及癱瘓風ㆍ大風ㆍ破傷風. 紫背浮萍, 不以多少, 以七月上半旬或望日採, 攤竹篩內, 下着水, 曬乾爲末, 蜜丸彈子大, 每一丸, 以豆淋酒化下. 《綱目》 ○歌曰: 天生靈草無根幹, 不在山間不在岸. 始因飛絮逐東風, 泛梗靑靑漂水面. 神仙一味起沉痾, 採我之時七月半. 選甚癱風與瘓風, 些少微風都不筭. 豆淋酒內下三丸, 鐵僕頭上也出汗. 《綱目》 ○一名浮萍丸. 《入門》

Translation

Treats all wind diseases, and paralytic wind, great wind and lockjaw. Purple-backed duckweed, any amount; gather it in the first ten days or on the fifteenth of the seventh month, spread it inside a bamboo sieve with water beneath, sun-dry and powder it, make honey pills the size of a bullet, and dissolve one in black soybean wine. The verse: Heaven makes a numinous herb with neither root nor trunk; it is not in the hills and not on the bank. It began as flying down pursuing the east wind, and now its green stems float upon the water's face. One drug of the immortals raises a sunken illness; the time to gather me is the middle of the seventh month. Pick out whichever paralysis you please — of a little mild wind I take no account. Three pills in black soybean wine, and even an iron servant's head will break out in sweat. Also called Bupyeong-hwan. — Uihak Gangmok 綱目 (Donguibogam · Pung)

Clinical commentary 臨床

A single herb, and the whole entry is about when and how to gather it: the first ten days or the full moon of the seventh month, dried on a sieve held over water so it does not shrink. That attention to collection time is characteristic of the single-simple tradition and of the verses that carried it. Duckweed is a genuine diaphoretic in the materia medica and remains in use for rashes and for wind-heat at the surface; the claim that three pills will sweat an iron servant is the verse's boast rather than the drug's. For the chapter's purpose it is the cheapest possible answer to the doctrine that wind is not removed without a great sweat. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.