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Formulas · Dispel Wind 祛風 · Eoyagwonbang (御藥院方)

Costus Protect Life Elixir

Mokhyang-bomyeong-dan

한글 목향보명단  ·  Pinyin Mu Xiang Bao Ming Dan

木香保命丹

赤箭 is a name for gastrodia, which the formula also lists as 天麻; the two entries are combined in the ingredient list. 酥灸 is roasting with clarified butter. 漿水 is the sour water of fermented millet.

Composition 構成

Total 496 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

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Wind in the channels and sinews
  • Wind damp with paralysis and pain

Biomedical correlates

  • Stroke sequelae
  • Chronic paresis with joint pain

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治中風一切諸證. 木香ㆍ白附子(生)ㆍ桂皮ㆍ杜衝ㆍ厚朴ㆍ藁本ㆍ獨活ㆍ羌活ㆍ海東皮ㆍ白芷ㆍ甘菊ㆍ牛膝(酒浸)ㆍ白花蛇(酒炒)ㆍ全蝎(炒)ㆍ威靈仙(酒洗)ㆍ天麻ㆍ當歸ㆍ蔓荊子ㆍ虎骨(酒浸, 酥灸)ㆍ天南星(漿水煮)ㆍ防風ㆍ山藥ㆍ甘草(酥灸)ㆍ赤箭 各五錢, 朱砂 七錢半(半爲衣), 麝香 一錢半. 右爲末, 蜜丸彈子大, 朱砂爲衣, 每一丸, 細嚼, 溫酒送下. 《御藥》

Translation

Treats every pattern of wind stroke. Costus, raw typhonium, cassia bark, eucommia, magnolia bark, ligusticum sinense, pubescent angelica, notopterygium, castor aralia bark, angelica dahurica, chrysanthemum, wine-steeped achyranthes, wine-fried pit viper, stir-fried whole scorpion, wine-washed clematis, gastrodia, tangkuei, vitex fruit, tiger bone steeped in wine and roasted with butter, arisaema boiled in rice water, saposhnikovia, dioscorea, licorice roasted with butter, and gastrodia sprout, 5 don each; cinnabar, 7 don 5 fun, half of it for the coating; musk, 1 don 5 fun. Powder, make honey pills the size of a bullet, coat with cinnabar, and chew one finely and send it down with warm wine. — Eoyagwonbang 御藥 (Donguibogam · Pung)

Clinical commentary 臨床

**This must not be prepared.** Cinnabar in the pill and again as the coating, musk and pit viper and tiger bone all from protected species, tiger bone prohibited outright. The formula is an imperial pharmacy's catalogue of everything then believed to act on wind, twenty-four drugs all at five don, and it is useful chiefly as a record of what a court dispensary had on its shelves and how it processed each item: wine for the achyranthes and clematis, butter-roasting for the tiger bone and licorice, sour millet water for the arisaema. Those processing notes are the part of the entry worth keeping. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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