Formulas · Drain Dampness 利水滲濕 · Uihak Jeongjeon (醫學正傳)

Life-Preserving White Atractylodes Powder

Jeonsaengbaekchul-san

한글 전생백출산 · Pinyin Quan Sheng Bai Zhu San

全生白朮散

Powdered; 2 don per dose stirred into thin rice water. The design is the Five Peels: ginger peel, areca husk, tangerine peel, poria skin, and mulberry root bark, with atractylodes at double their rank. Note on modern practice: swelling in pregnancy of sudden onset, or with headache or visual change, requires prompt obstetric evaluation.

Composition 構成

Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

40 g
Chief 君
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

20 g
Deputy 臣 peel (生薑皮)
Daebokpi Da Fu Pi
大腹皮 대복피 · Areca Husk

20 g
Deputy 臣
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

20 g
Deputy 臣
Baekbokryeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

20 g
Deputy 臣 peel (茯苓皮)
Sangbaekpi Sang Bai Pi
桑白皮 상백피 · Mulberry Root Bark

20 g
Deputy 臣

Total 140 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

Drains the swelling of pregnancy entirely through peels
Moves water without touching the pregnancy itself

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Child swelling (子腫)
Edema in pregnancy requiring the gentlest possible method
The all-peel strategy

Biomedical correlates

Edema in pregnancy
Gentle fluid management
Supportive gestational care

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治同上. 白朮一兩, 生薑皮ㆍ大腹皮ㆍ陳皮ㆍ茯苓皮ㆍ桑白皮各五錢. 右爲末, 每二錢, 米飮調下. 《正傳》

Translation

Treats the same as the above. White atractylodes 1 nyang; ginger peel, areca husk, tangerine peel, poria skin, and mulberry root bark, 5 don each. Powder the above; take 2 don each time stirred into thin rice water. — Jeongjeon 正傳 (Donguibogam · Buin)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The Five Peels arrangement, given a chief — every draining agent here is a skin or husk, because a peel works at the surface where the water sits and does not reach inward toward the pregnancy. The name says what the strategy is for: preserving the whole life, both of them, while the flood goes out. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.