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Drive Out the Wind Paste

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한글 구풍고  ·  Pinyin Qu Feng Gao

驅風膏

The section text above the leaf prescribes it by name, 次與驅風膏鎭心丸鎭肝丸. The leaf writes 梔子, the corpus's heading form for gardenia.

Composition 構成

Total 40 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 5 ingredients 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

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • 肝風發驚搐 — liver wind erupting as fright and convulsion
  • 胎風 — fetal wind

Biomedical correlates

  • Convulsion in a child with fever
  • Neonatal convulsion

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治肝風發驚搐, 及胎風. 辰砂ㆍ蝎梢ㆍ當歸ㆍ草龍膽ㆍ川芎ㆍ梔子ㆍ大黃ㆍ羌活ㆍ防風ㆍ甘草 各一錢. 右爲末, 入麝香少許, 砂糖和丸芡實大, 每一丸, 薄荷竹葉蜜湯化下. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats liver wind breaking out as fright and convulsion, and fetal wind. Cinnabar, scorpion tail, angelica, gentian, chuanxiong, gardenia, rhubarb, notopterygium, saposhnikovia and licorice, 1 don each. Powder the above, add a little musk, and bind with sugar into pills the size of a euryale seed; take one at a time, dissolved in a honeyed decoction of mint and bamboo leaf. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Soa)

Clinical commentary 臨床

This is Sacheong-hwan with additions, and it is worth saying so plainly: angelica, gentian, chuanxiong, gardenia, rhubarb, notopterygium and saposhnikovia are Qian Yi's seven drugs for draining liver fire, here taken out of equal parts into a flat don each and given cinnabar, scorpion tail, licorice and a little musk on top, with sugar instead of honey to bind. The sugar and the honeyed mint-and-bamboo-leaf vehicle are there to get a bitter pill into a child. **Contains cinnabar — 朱砂, mercuric sulfide — scorpion tail and musk, in a pill written for a child, and the chapter gives no dose by weight anywhere. This must not be prepared.** The mercury paragraph under Jinsa-go-soa applies here in full. The rhubarb deserves its own line: a don of it in every pill makes this a purgative as much as a cooling formula, and a febrile convulsing child, or a newborn with 胎風, has no fluid to spare. On what the acute febrile seizure needs, see Igyeong-hwan. For the composition without the mercury and the scorpion, see Sacheong-hwan, which is the same idea and the better formula of the two. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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