Formulas · Regulate Qi 理氣 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Apricot Kernel and Ginseng Powder

Haengsam-san

한글 행삼산 · Pinyin Xing Shen San

杏參散

Two formulas of the name 杏參散 stand a few leaves apart in this chapter: this one, from the Immun, for panting after injury or fright, and the Gukbang's four-drug formula for cough and panting generally, registered as haengsam-san-2.

Composition 構成

Haengin Xing Ren
杏仁 행인 · Apricot Kernel

2.8 g
Chief 君
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

2.8 g
Chief 君
Daebokpi Da Fu Pi
大腹皮 대복피 · Areca Husk

2.8 g
Deputy 臣
Billang Bing Lang
檳榔 빈랑 · Areca Seed

2.8 g
Deputy 臣
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

2.8 g
Deputy 臣
Jawan Zi Wan
紫菀 자완 · Aster Root

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

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

2.8 g
Assistant 佐
Gaja He Zi
訶子 가자 · Chebula

2.8 g
Assistant 佐
Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

2.8 g
Assistant 佐

processed · toxic in the raw state
Yukgye Rou Gui
肉桂 육계 · Cinnamon Bark

2.8 g
Assistant 佐

the heart of the bark (桂心)
Jasoyeop Zi Su Ye
紫蘇葉 자소엽 · Perilla Leaf

2.8 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

2.8 g
Envoy 使
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

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Envoy 使

three slices

Total 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 urgent panting and restlessness after a fall, a fright, a wading of water or a tumble

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Panting after injury or fright
Qi disordered by a fall with panting

Biomedical correlates

Post-traumatic dyspnoea

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治墜墮ㆍ驚恐ㆍ渡水跌仆, 喘急不安. 杏仁ㆍ人參ㆍ大腹皮ㆍ陳皮ㆍ檳榔ㆍ白朮ㆍ訶子ㆍ半夏ㆍ桂心ㆍ紫菀ㆍ桑白皮ㆍ紫蘇葉ㆍ甘草各七分. 右剉, 作一貼, 薑三, 水煎服. 《入門》

Translation

Treats urgent panting and restlessness after a fall, a fright, a wading of water or a tumble. Apricot kernel, ginseng, areca husk, tangerine peel, areca nut, white atractylodes, chebule, pinellia, the heart of cinnamon bark, aster, mulberry root bark, perilla leaf and licorice, 7 fun each. Cut up, make one packet, add three slices of ginger, decoct in water and take. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Haesu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The formula for 3.9, coughs and panting that follow an injury, and the Inner Classic passage it answers assigns each kind of accident to an organ: night walking to the kidney, a fall to the liver, a fright to the lung, wading water and tumbling to the kidney and bones. The formula does not follow that scheme at all — it is a qi-moving, phlegm-settling prescription with ginseng in it, which is to say a treatment for the state the patient is in rather than for the theory. Panting and agitation after a fall or a drenching, settled with a warm aromatic formula, is the old treatment for what would now be considered shock or a chest injury. **Breathlessness after a fall needs examination for rib fracture, pneumothorax and lung contusion.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.