Formulas · Warm the Interior 溫裏 · Boje Bonsabang (普濟本事方)

Rectify the Yang Powder for the Yin Pattern

Jeongyang-san

한글 정양산 · Pinyin Zheng Yang San

正陽散

Registered with a suffix to distinguish it from the 正陽散 of the 傷寒陰毒 section of this same chapter, which is a five-drug formula from the Deughyobang.

Composition 構成

Mahwang Ma Huang
麻黃 마황 · Ephedra

6 g
Chief 君
Geongang Gan Jiang
乾薑 건강 · Dried Ginger

2.8 g
Chief 君

raw
Buja Fu Zi
附子 부자 · Prepared Aconite

2.8 g
Chief 君

blast-fried · toxic
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

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

2.8 g
Deputy 臣
Baekjagyak Bai Shao
白芍藥 백작약 · White Peony

2.8 g
Deputy 臣
Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

2.8 g
Deputy 臣

processed
Daehwang Da Huang
大黃 대황 · Rhubarb

2.8 g
Assistant 佐
Osuyu Wu Zhu Yu
吳茱萸 오수유 · Evodia

2 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

2.8 g
Envoy 使

honey-roasted
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

—
Envoy 使

three slices
Daejo Da Zao
大棗 대조 · Jujube

—
Envoy 使

two fruits

Total 30.4 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 2 ingredients 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 the yin pattern of cold damage
Taken to bring out a sweat

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Yin pattern cold damage with cold limbs
Interior cold with an unresolved exterior

Biomedical correlates

Febrile illness with hypothermia
Gastroenteritis with chills

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治陰證傷寒. 麻黃一錢半, 陳皮ㆍ大黃ㆍ生乾薑ㆍ肉桂ㆍ芍藥ㆍ附子(炮)ㆍ半夏(製)ㆍ甘草(灸) 各七分, 吳茱萸五分. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑三片, 棗二枚, 水煎服取汗. 《本事》

Translation

Treats the yin pattern of cold damage. Ephedra, 1 don 5 fun; tangerine peel, rhubarb, raw dried ginger, cassia bark, peony, blast-fried aconite, processed pinellia and honey-roasted licorice, 7 fun each; evodia, 5 fun. Cut up, make one packet, add three slices of ginger and two jujubes, and decoct in water, taken to bring out a sweat. — Boje Bonsabang 本事 (Donguibogam · Han)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Ten drugs for a yin pattern and one of them is rhubarb, which is the oddity worth pausing on. Ephedra, aconite, cassia, evodia and dried ginger are all warming and the formula is plainly a yang-restoring sweating prescription; the rhubarb at seven fun is there, on the Benshi's reasoning, to keep the warming drugs from binding the bowel — a small cold drug set against a large warm formula to protect one function. That device appears repeatedly in this chapter and is one of the Shanghanlun tradition's more sophisticated habits. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.