Formulas · Transform Phlegm 化痰 · Wigye Bogam (衛生寶鑑)

Ginseng and Pinellia Pill

Insambanha-hwan

한글 인삼반하환 · Pinyin Ren Shen Ban Xia Wan

人參半夏丸

Composition 構成

Hapbun Ge Fen
蛤粉 합분 · Clamshell Powder

80 g
Chief 君

sea clam shell powder (海蛤粉)
Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

40 g
Chief 君

processed · toxic in the raw state
Geongang Gan Jiang
乾薑 건강 · Dried Ginger

40 g
Deputy 臣
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

20 g
Deputy 臣
Cheonnamseong Tian Nan Xing
天南星 천남성 · Arisaema

20 g
Deputy 臣

blast-fried (炮) · toxic in the raw state
Baekban Bai Fan
白礬 백반 · Alum

40 g
Assistant 佐
Hansuseok Han Shui Shi
寒水石 한수석 · Glauberite

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

20 g
Assistant 佐
Bakha Bo He
薄荷 박하 · Mint

20 g
Assistant 佐
Gwakhyang Huo Xiang
藿香 곽향 · Korean Mint

10 g
Envoy 使

Total 330 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

Transforms phlegm and drops the drool
Stops cough and settles panting
Treats wind phlegm, tea phlegm, food phlegm and every phlegm illness

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Phlegm panting with cough
Phlegm of any origin filling the chest

Biomedical correlates

Chronic bronchitis with sputum

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

化痰墜涎, 止嗽定喘. 治風痰ㆍ茶痰ㆍ食痰ㆍ一切痰病. 海蛤粉二兩, 半夏ㆍ乾薑ㆍ白礬ㆍ寒水石各一兩, 人參ㆍ赤茯苓ㆍ薄荷ㆍ南星(炮) 各五錢, 藿香二錢半. 右爲末, 水糊和丸梧子大, 薑湯下三十丸, 日三. 《寶鑑》

Translation

Transforms phlegm and drops the drool, stops cough and settles panting; treats wind phlegm, tea phlegm, food phlegm and every phlegm illness. Sea clam shell powder, 2 nyang; pinellia, dried ginger, alum and glauberite, 1 nyang each; ginseng, red poria, mint and blast-fried arisaema, 5 don each; patchouli, 2 don 5 fun. Grind to a powder, make pills the size of a paulownia seed with water paste, and give thirty down with ginger decoction, three times a day. — Wigye Bogam 寶鑑 (Donguibogam · Haesu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The chapter's pill for the interval rather than the attack: 久喘未發時服人參半夏丸, taken when the long-standing panting is not breaking out, with Chimhyang-goldam-hwan kept for when it does. That is a maintenance-and-rescue division, and it is the same distinction a modern patient keeps between a preventer and a reliever. 茶痰 — tea phlegm — is worth noticing in the indication list: phlegm attributed to drinking tea, which the period's physicians treated as a cause in its own right. The formula itself is built on the two cold minerals, clam shell and glauberite, with pinellia and arisaema for the phlegm and ginseng and poria to hold the middle. **Contains pinellia and arisaema, both toxic in the raw state and requiring proper processing, and alum, which is irritant in quantity.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.