Formulas · Stop Cough & Wheeze 止咳平喘 · Dangye Simbeop (丹溪心法)

Apricot Kernel and Pinellia Decoction

Haenginbanha-tang

한글 행인반하탕 · Pinyin Xing Ren Ban Xia Tang

杏仁半夏湯

Composition 構成

Haengin Xing Ren
杏仁 행인 · Apricot Kernel

4 g
Chief 君
Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

4 g
Chief 君

processed · toxic in the raw state
Gilgyeong Jie Geng
桔梗 길경 · Platycodon

4 g
Deputy 臣
Sangbaekpi Sang Bai Pi
桑白皮 상백피 · Mulberry Root Bark

4 g
Deputy 臣
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

4 g
Assistant 佐
Jeokbongnyeong Chi Fu Ling
赤茯苓 적복령 · Poria (red)

4 g
Assistant 佐
Banggi Fang Ji
防己 방기 · Sinomenium

4 g
Assistant 佐
Baekban Bai Fan
白礬 백반 · Alum

4 g
Assistant 佐
Jogak Zao Jiao
皂角 조각 · Gleditsia Pod

2 g
Assistant 佐
Bakha Bo He
薄荷 박하 · Mint

2 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

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Envoy 使

one inch
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

—
Envoy 使

three slices

Total g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 2 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

Treats panting cough from insufficiency of the lung qi

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Lung qi insufficiency with panting cough
Phlegm and water in the lung

Biomedical correlates

Wheeze with sputum — historical treatment

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治肺氣不足喘嗽. 杏仁ㆍ半夏ㆍ桔梗ㆍ陳皮ㆍ赤茯苓ㆍ防己ㆍ桑白皮ㆍ白礬各一錢, 皂角ㆍ薄荷各五分, 甘草一寸. 右麄末, 作一貼, 薑三, 水煎服. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats panting cough from insufficiency of the lung qi. Apricot kernel, pinellia, platycodon, tangerine peel, red poria, fangji, mulberry root bark and alum, 1 don each; soapberry and field mint, 5 fun each; licorice, one inch. Make a coarse powder, one packet, add three slices of ginger and decoct in water. — Dangye Simbeop 丹心 (Donguibogam · Haesu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The alum and the soapberry are what mark this formula out: both are drugs for a phlegm that will not shift, and alum taken internally is an astringent and an expectorant in the old pharmacy. With fangji and mulberry root bark alongside, the formula is aimed at water in the lung as much as at phlegm, which fits the stated indication of a lung qi too weak to move its own fluid. **Contains pinellia, toxic in the raw state and to be properly processed, alum, which irritates the gut and is not taken internally now, and soapberry. This is recorded as history.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.