Stand at Ease Powder

Ipan-san

한글 입안산 · Pinyin Li An San

立安散

Powdered; two spoonfuls stirred into warm wine on an empty stomach. **Note on modern practice: morning glory seed is a purgative; short courses only.**

Composition 構成

Baekgyeonu Bai Qian Niu
白牽牛 백견우 · White Morning Glory Seed

8 g
Chief 君 first-ground powder, half raw and half dry-fried
Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

4 g
Deputy 臣
Yukgye Rou Gui
肉桂 육계 · Cinnamon Bark

4 g
Deputy 臣
Hyeonhosaek Yan Hu Suo
玄胡索 현호색 · Corydalis

4 g
Deputy 臣 dry-fried
Duchung Du Zhong
杜仲 두충 · Eucommia Bark

4 g
Assistant 佐 ginger-juice-fried
Hoehyang Hui Xiang
茴香 회향 · Fennel Fruit

4 g
Assistant 佐 dry-fried
Mokhyang Mu Xiang
木香 목향 · Costus Root

2 g
Envoy 使

Total 30 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 Qi that a wrench has stalled in the low back
Adds a purging seed to drive the stagnation down

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Wrenching strain with Qi stagnation and lumbar pain (治挫閃氣滯腰痛)
Acute strain with a bound
blocked quality
Injury with abdominal fullness

Biomedical correlates

Acute low back strain with stiffness
Lifting injury with Qi stagnation
Short-course therapy

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治挫閃氣滯腰痛. 白牽牛(頭末半生半炒) 二錢, 當歸ㆍ肉桂ㆍ玄胡索(炒)ㆍ杜沖(薑汁炒)ㆍ茴香(炒) 各一錢, 木香半錢. 右爲末, 空心, 以溫酒調下二匙. 《醫鑑》

Translation

Treats wrenching strain with Qi stagnation and lumbar pain. White morning glory seed, the first-ground powder, half raw and half dry-fried, 2 don; Korean angelica, cinnamon bark, dry-fried corydalis, ginger-juice-fried eucommia, and dry-fried fennel, 1 don each; aucklandia half a don. Powder the above; take two spoonfuls stirred into warm wine on an empty stomach. — Uigam 醫鑑 (Donguibogam · Yo)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The name means to stand at ease, which is what a person with a wrenched back cannot do. What distinguishes this from the other strain formulas is the morning glory seed at the head — a purgative, taken in its first-ground powder and half raw — which marks this as the version for a strain that has left the patient bound and blocked rather than merely sore. The chapter's reading is that a wrench can stall the Qi as well as tear the sinew, and that the stalled Qi needs a way out. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.