Formulas · Dispel Wind 祛風 · Uibang Yuchwi (醫方類聚)

Rectify the Tongue Powder

Jeongseol-san

한글 정설산 · Pinyin Zheng She San

正舌散

蝎梢 is the tail segment of the scorpion, held to be the most potent part. The variant Boksin-san substitutes 茯神心, the inner core of poria grown around the pine root.

Composition 構成

Bakha Bo He
薄荷 박하 · Mint

80 g
Chief 君

dry-roasted
Jeokbokryeong Chi Fu Ling
赤茯苓 적복령 · Poria (red)

40 g
Deputy 臣
Jeongal Quan Xie
全蠍 전갈 · Scorpion (toxic)

10 g
Assistant 佐

tail tips only · toxic

Total 130 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 stroke with a stiff tongue and halting speech
Opens the orifice and extinguishes wind

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Wind stroke with the tongue stiff and speech rough
Wind phlegm obstructing the tongue

Biomedical correlates

Dysarthria after stroke
Tongue deviation

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治中風舌强ㆍ語澁, 神妙. 薄荷(焙) 二兩, 赤茯苓一兩, 蝎梢二錢半. 右爲末, 每一二錢, 溫酒調下. 《得效》 ○一方, 茯神心一兩(炒)用, 名茯神散. 《寶鑑》

Translation

Treats wind stroke with a stiff tongue and rough speech; wonderfully effective. Mint, dry-roasted, 2 nyang; red poria, 1 nyang; scorpion tail tips, 2 don 5 fun. Powder; 1 or 2 don each time, taken stirred into warm wine. One version uses 1 nyang of stir-fried poria spirit-heart and is called Boksin-san. — Uibang Yuchwi 得效 · Dongwon Boggam 寶鑑 (Donguibogam · Pung)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Three drugs and a cup of warm wine, which is as light as anything in this chapter gets. Mint dominates by weight and is the orifice-opening aromatic; red poria drains the damp that the tradition held to be thickening the tongue; and a small quantity of scorpion tail is the wind-extinguishing agent. The alcohol is not incidental — it carries the aromatics and the scorpion alkaloids and is part of the design. Scorpion is toxic and the quantity here is deliberately small; it is also the ingredient that makes this formula unsuitable for a patient on anticoagulants or in any stroke of uncertain type. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.