Cyperus Powder

Hyangbu-san

한글 향부산 · Pinyin Xiang Fu San

香附散

Powdered; 2 don stirred into thin rice water on an empty stomach — the source calls the effect spirit-level. Note on modern practice: abnormal uterine bleeding requires gynecological evaluation.

Composition 構成

Hyangbuja Xiang Fu
香附子 향부자 · Cyperus

8 g
Chief 君 hairs removed, pounded, simmered half a day in vinegar, baked dry

Total 8 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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

Frees the constraint beneath a five-colored flooding
Works through a single herb given half a day in vinegar

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Five-colored flooding and spotting (五色崩漏)
Bleeding with constraint as its ground
The single-herb regulating answer

Biomedical correlates

Abnormal uterine bleeding with stress-associated pattern
Chronic spotting
Supportive management

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治五色崩漏. 香附子(去毛擣碎, 醋煮半日, 焙)爲末, 每二錢, 米飮調下, 空心, 神效. 《本事》

Translation

Treats five-colored flooding and spotting. Cyperus — hairs removed, pounded and crushed, simmered half a day in vinegar, and baked dry — is powdered; take 2 don each time stirred into thin rice water on an empty stomach: a spirit-level effect. — Bonsa 本事 (Donguibogam · Po)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The chapter's whole doctrine of the constrained cycle, reduced to one herb and a preparation: cyperus simmered half a day in vinegar and baked. The four general-purpose regulating pills of this chapter are all cyperus processed a different number of ways; this is the least elaborate of them, and it stands for the reasoning behind all of them — that what has stopped moving, rather than what is missing, is usually the trouble. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.