Formulas · Transform Phlegm 化痰 · Boje Bonsabang (普濟本事方)

Settle the Wind Cakes

Jeongpung-byeongja

한글 정풍병자 · Pinyin Ding Feng Bing Zi

定風餠子

Registered with the chapter suffix to distinguish it from the 定風餠子 of the Deughyobang transmitted elsewhere in the book, whose composition includes typhonium. The 風病須防再發 heading it sits under concerns the prevention of recurrence.

Composition 構成

Cheonma Tian Ma
天麻 천마 · Gastrodia

40 g
Chief 君

raw
Cheono Chuan Wu
川烏 천오 · Aconite Main Root

40 g
Deputy 臣

raw · toxic
Namseong Tian Nan Xing
天南星 천남성 · Arisaema

40 g
Deputy 臣

raw · toxic
Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

40 g
Deputy 臣

raw
Cheongung Chuan Xiong
川芎 천궁 · Cnidium

40 g
Deputy 臣

raw
Geongang Gan Jiang
乾薑 건강 · Dried Ginger

40 g
Assistant 佐

raw
Baekbokryeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

40 g
Assistant 佐

raw
Jusa Zhu Sha
朱砂 주사 · Cinnabar (toxic)

—
Assistant 佐

as a coating · toxic
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

40 g
Envoy 使

raw

Total 320 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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 stroke with a deviated face
nasal discharge
phlegm reversal headache
dizziness and vomiting
Taken to forestall a relapse of wind disease and to brighten the spirit and mind

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Wind phlegm rising with headache and dizziness
Phlegm reversal with vomiting

Biomedical correlates

Vestibular migraine
Prevention of recurrent stroke

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治中風面喎ㆍ鼻淵ㆍ痰厥頭痛ㆍ眩暈ㆍ嘔吐. 天麻ㆍ川烏ㆍ南星ㆍ半夏ㆍ白薑ㆍ川芎ㆍ白茯苓ㆍ甘草(生) 右等分爲末, 薑汁和丸芡實大, 作餠子, 朱砂爲衣, 每一餠, 細嚼, 薑湯下. 預防風疾, 爽慧神志. 《本事》

Translation

Treats wind stroke with a deviated face, nasal discharge, phlegm reversal headache, dizziness and vomiting. Gastrodia, aconite kusnezoffii, arisaema, pinellia, white ginger, chuanxiong, poria and licorice, all raw, in equal parts, powdered, bound with ginger juice into pills the size of euryale seeds and pressed into little cakes, coated with cinnabar; chew one finely and send it down with ginger decoction. It forestalls a relapse of wind disease and brightens the spirit and mind. — Boje Bonsabang 本事 (Donguibogam · Pung)

Clinical commentary 臨床

**This must not be prepared.** Raw aconite kusnezoffii and raw arisaema chewed as a cake, under a cinnabar coating, taken prophylactically over long periods — the preventive indication is what makes this one worse than the emergency formulas, because the exposure is repeated. Setting that aside, the composition is a recognizable phlegm-and-wind set and the symptom cluster it names — headache, dizziness, vomiting, with a history of stroke — is a real one. The claim to brighten the spirit and mind belongs to the elixir register. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.