Formulas · Dispel Wind 祛風 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Prolong Life and Resolve Speech Decoction

Jasu-haeeo-tang

한글 자수해어탕 · Pinyin Zi Shou Jie Yu Tang

資壽解語湯

The channel explanation in the indication is quoted from the Lingshu's account of the heart's divergent vessel and the spleen channel. 羚羊角 is from a CITES-listed species.

Composition 構成

Yeongyanggak Ling Yang Jiao
羚羊角 영양각 · Saiga Antelope Horn (prohibited)

4 g
Chief 君

CITES
Cheonma Tian Ma
天麻 천마 · Gastrodia

2 g
Chief 君
Yukgye Rou Gui
肉桂 육계 · Cinnamon Bark

4 g
Deputy 臣
Ganghwal Qiang Huo
羌活 강활 · Notopterygium

3 g
Deputy 臣
Bangpung Fang Feng
防風 방풍 · Siler

2 g
Assistant 佐
Buja Fu Zi
附子 부자 · Prepared Aconite

2 g
Assistant 佐

blast-fried
Sanjoin Suan Zao Ren
酸棗仁 산조인 · Sour Jujube Seed

2 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

3 g
Envoy 使

Total 22 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

Treats wind striking the heart and spleen with a stiff tongue and loss of speech
Extinguishes wind and frees the channels that reach the root of the tongue

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Wind striking the heart and spleen with the tongue stiff and speechless
Internal wind with the tongue immobile

Biomedical correlates

Aphasia after stroke
Dysarthria of central origin

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治風中心脾, 舌强不語. 蓋心之別脉系于舌本, 脾之脉挾咽連舌本散舌下故也. 羚羊角ㆍ桂皮各一錢, 羌活ㆍ甘草各七分半, 防風ㆍ附子(炮)ㆍ酸棗仁ㆍ天麻各五分. 右剉, 作一貼, 水煎, 入竹瀝五匙, 薑汁一匙, 服. 《入門》

Translation

Treats wind striking the heart and spleen with a stiff tongue and loss of speech — for the heart's divergent vessel attaches to the root of the tongue, and the spleen's vessel flanks the throat, joins the root of the tongue and spreads beneath it. Antelope horn and cassia bark, 1 don each; notopterygium and licorice, 7 fun 5 ri each; saposhnikovia, blast-fried aconite, ziziphus seed and gastrodia, 5 fun each. Cut up, make one packet, decoct in water, and take with five spoons of bamboo sap and one spoon of ginger juice. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Pung)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The only one of the speech formulas that gives its own anatomical reasoning, and the reasoning is good: the heart's divergent vessel reaches the root of the tongue and the spleen channel flanks the throat and spreads beneath it, so wind striking those two organs shows as a tongue that will not move. That is a channel-based account of what is really bulbar or cortical involvement, and it leads to a formula built on antelope horn and gastrodia to extinguish wind rather than on phlegm drugs. Antelope horn is CITES-listed and unavailable; goat horn is the usual substitution and is not the same drug. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.