Formulas · Tonify Blood 補血 · Danggye Simbeop (丹溪心法)

Whole Life Tiger Bone Powder

Jeonsaeng-hogol-san

한글 전생호골산 · Pinyin Quan Sheng Hu Gu San

全生虎骨散

偏枯 — withered hemilateral — is the Neijing's term for hemiplegia with wasting. 虎骨 is from a species protected under CITES Appendix I and its trade is prohibited.

Composition 構成

Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

60 g
Chief 君
Hogol Hu Gu
虎骨 호골 · Tiger Bone (prohibited)

40 g
Chief 君

prohibited
Jeokjakyak Chi Shao
赤芍藥 적작약 · Red Peony

40 g
Deputy 臣
Sokdan Xu Duan
續斷 속단 · Dipsacus

40 g
Deputy 臣
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

40 g
Deputy 臣
Gobon Gao Ben
藁本 고본 · Ligusticum Root

40 g
Assistant 佐
Osa Wu She
烏蛇 오사 · Black-Striped Snake

20 g
Assistant 佐

Total 280 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 hemiplegia with the flesh dried and wasted
called withered hemilateral
Moistens the sinews and dispels wind without sweating

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Blood vacuity with hemilateral withering
Wind with wasting of the flesh

Biomedical correlates

Hemiplegia with muscle atrophy
Post-stroke disuse wasting

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治半身不遂, 肌肉乾瘦, 名曰偏枯. 忌用發汗之劑, 惟當潤筋去風. 當歸一兩半, 赤芍藥ㆍ續斷ㆍ白朮ㆍ藁本ㆍ虎骨各一兩, 烏蛇肉五錢. 右爲末, 每二錢, 溫酒食後調下. 骨中疼痛, 加生地黃一兩. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats hemiplegia with the flesh dried and wasted, which is called withered hemilateral. Sweating prescriptions are contraindicated; one must only moisten the sinews and dispel wind. Tangkuei, 1 nyang 5 don; red peony, dipsacus, atractylodes, ligusticum sinense and tiger bone, 1 nyang each; black-striped snake flesh, 5 don. Powder; 2 don each time, taken stirred into warm wine after food. For pain within the bones, add 1 nyang of raw rehmannia. — Danggye Simbeop 丹心 (Donguibogam · Pung)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The one entry in the section that states a contraindication, and it is the right one: in hemiplegia with the flesh already wasted, sweating prescriptions are forbidden, and the task is only to moisten the sinews and dispel wind. That is a real clinical distinction — the acute stroke and the chronic wasted limb need opposite treatment — and most of the chapter does not make it. The formula itself is tangkuei-led and mild, with the addition clause for bone pain showing a working physician's hand. Tiger bone is prohibited; the standard substitutions are dog or ox bone, and the formula functions without it. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.