Formulas · Transform Phlegm 化痰 · Jeungnyu Boncho (證類本草)

Settle Panting and Transform Phlegm Powder

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한글 정천화담산  ·  Pinyin Ding Chuan Hua Tan San

定喘化痰散

猪蹄甲, the horny part of the pig's hoof, is entered as the registered 猪蹄; 一字 is a quarter of a 錢, about a gram.

Composition 構成

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Phlegm panting with drool that will not clear

Biomedical correlates

  • Wheeze with sputum retention — historical treatment

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治喘至妙, 定喘化涎. 猪蹄甲 四十九箇(淨洗控乾), 每甲納半夏ㆍ白礬 各一字, 入罐內封閉, 勿令烟出, 火煆通赤, 放冷, 細硏, 入麝香 一錢, 以糯米飮調下一錢. 《本草》

Translation

Treats panting most excellently, settling the panting and transforming the drool. Forty-nine pig's hooves, washed clean and drained; into each hoof put a 字 measure of pinellia and of alum, place them in a crock and seal it so that no smoke escapes, calcine them to a red heat, let them cool, grind them fine, add 1 don of musk, and give 1 don stirred into glutinous rice water. — Jeungnyu Boncho 本草 (Donguibogam · Haesu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Forty-nine pig's hooves packed with pinellia and alum, sealed in a crock and calcined to red heat — a long and deliberate preparation whose product is essentially bone char with a little aluminium salt in it. The musk added afterwards is the aromatic that was expected to carry it through the chest. **This must not be prepared. Musk is a protected-species material whose trade is restricted, and the preparation is one we would not reproduce; pinellia is toxic in the raw state.** The entry is kept because the chapter names it among its general formulas for panting at 3.10. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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