Formulas · Tonify Yin 補陰 · Dangye Simbeop (丹溪心法)

Beeswax Decoction Powder

Napjeon-san

한글 납전산 · Pinyin La Jian San

蠟煎散

Composition 構成

Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

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Chief 君

equal parts
Maengmundong Mai Men Dong
麥門冬 맥문동 · Liriope

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Chief 君

equal parts
Haengin Xing Ren
杏仁 행인 · Apricot Kernel

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Deputy 臣

equal parts
Sanyak Shan Yao
山藥 산약 · Chinese Yam

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Deputy 臣

equal parts
Paemo Bei Mu
貝母 패모 · Fritillaria

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Deputy 臣

equal parts
Baekhap Bai He
百合 백합 · Lily Bulb

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Deputy 臣

equal parts
Baekbongnyeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

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Assistant 佐

equal parts
Nokgakgyo Lu Jiao Jiao
鹿角膠 녹각교 · Deer Antler Gelatin

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Assistant 佐

equal parts; antler glue, a protected-species material — donkey-hide glue may be used instead
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

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Envoy 使

honey-roasted, equal parts
Hwangnap Huang La
黃蠟 황랍 · Beeswax

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Envoy 使

a piece the size of a soapberry seed, decocted with each dose

Total g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 10 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Treats vacuity taxation with long panting and cough
or the coughing up of pus and blood

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Lung yin vacuity in taxation with cough
Cough with purulent or bloody sputum

Biomedical correlates

Pulmonary tuberculosis
Bronchiectasis with purulent sputum

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治虛勞久喘嗽, 或咯膿血. 杏仁ㆍ人參ㆍ麥門冬ㆍ山藥ㆍ白茯苓ㆍ貝母ㆍ百合ㆍ鹿角膠<span class='sochu'>無則阿膠代之</span>ㆍ甘草(灸) 各等分. 右爲麄末, 每三錢, 入黃蠟皂角子大, 同水煎溫服. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats vacuity taxation with long panting and cough, or the coughing up of pus and blood. Apricot kernel, ginseng, ophiopogon, Chinese yam, white poria, fritillaria, lily bulb, deer antler glue<span class='sochu'>if it is not to be had, donkey-hide glue may be used instead</span> and honey-roasted licorice, in equal parts. Grind to a coarse powder; 3 don each time with a piece of beeswax the size of a soapberry seed, decocted together in water and taken warm. — Dangye Simbeop 丹心 (Donguibogam · Haesu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

A moistening formula for the wasted patient, and the beeswax in the name is the whole idea: a piece melted into each dose coats the throat and carries the drugs down slowly. Lily, fritillaria and ophiopogon moisten the lung, ginseng and yam hold the qi, and the glue is there for the blood. 咯膿血 — coughing up pus and blood — in a patient with 虛勞 is pulmonary tuberculosis or bronchiectasis as a modern reader would divide it. **Either needs diagnosis and specific treatment; blood in the sputum is never to be treated empirically.** **Deer antler glue is a protected-species material and must not be prepared; the source's own substitute, donkey-hide glue, is the one to read.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.