Formulas · Warm the Interior 溫裏 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Return the Yang to Its Root Decoction

Hoeyang-banbon-tang

한글 회양반본탕 · Pinyin Hui Yang Fan Ben Tang

回陽返本湯

Decocted in clay water rather than plain water. The conditional addition of scallion white and coptis for a red face follows the same logic as the pig bile of 通脉四逆湯.

Composition 構成

Buja Fu Zi
附子 부자 · Prepared Aconite

4 g
Chief 君

blast-fried · toxic
Geongang Gan Jiang
乾薑 건강 · Dried Ginger

4 g
Chief 君

blast-fried
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

4 g
Chief 君
Maengmundong Mai Men Dong
麥門冬 맥문동 · Liriope

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

4 g
Assistant 佐
Omija Wu Wei Zi
五味子 오미자 · Schisandra

4 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

4 g
Envoy 使

honey-roasted
Seacha Xi Ya Cha
細芽茶 세아차 · Fine Tea Buds

4 g
Envoy 使
Ijang Ni Jiang
泥漿 이장 · Clay Water

—
Envoy 使

two cups of clear clay water, as the decoction liquid
Bongmil Feng Mi
蜂蜜 봉밀 · Honey

—
Envoy 使

five spoons, stirred in
Chongbaek Cong Bai
蔥白 총백 · Scallion White

—
Envoy 使

seven stalks, added where the face is red
Hwangnyeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

—
Envoy 使

a little, added where the face is red

Total 32 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 4 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 yin exuberance blocking the yang
Taken cold in clay water with honey
to draw out a sweat

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Yin exuberance blocking the yang with false heat above
True cold with a red face

Biomedical correlates

Circulatory collapse with flushing
Septic shock

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治陰盛隔陽. 附子(炮)ㆍ乾薑(炮)ㆍ人參ㆍ陳皮ㆍ麥門冬ㆍ五味子ㆍ甘草(灸)ㆍ臘茶各一錢. 右剉, 作一貼, 以淸泥漿二盞同煎, 去滓, 入蜜五匙, 調和放冷服之, 取汗爲效. 面赤者, 入葱白七莖ㆍ黃連少許, 同煎服. 《入門》

Translation

Treats yin exuberance blocking the yang. Blast-fried aconite, blast-fried dried ginger, ginseng, tangerine peel, ophiopogon, schisandra, honey-roasted licorice and winter tea, 1 don each. Cut up, make one packet and decoct in 2 cups of clear clay water; strain, stir in five spoons of honey, mix and take cold, the measure of effect being the sweating. Where the face is red, add seven stalks of scallion white and a little coptis and decoct together. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Han)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The fullest treatment of the chapter's hardest problem: a patient who is burning on the outside and cold at the core. Aconite, ginger and ginseng restore the yang; ophiopogon and schisandra hold the fluid that the false heat is driving off; tea and clay water and honey make the whole cold enough to be swallowed; and for a red face, scallion white and a pinch of coptis to draw the risen yang back down. Twelve components, every one of them answering a part of the contradiction. It is the most intelligent formula in the yin-yang blocking sections and still the clearest demonstration of what this tradition meant by treating true cold through false heat. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.