Formulas · Dispel Wind-Damp 祛風濕 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Five Impediments Decoction

Obi-tang

한글 오비탕 · Pinyin Wu Bi Tang

五痺湯

The five impediments of the heading are the skin, flesh, sinew, vessel and bone impediments; this formula answers the flesh impediment in particular.

Composition 構成

Ganghwal Qiang Huo
羌活 강활 · Notopterygium

8 g
Chief 君
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

8 g
Chief 君
Ganghwang Jiang Huang
薑黃 강황 · Turmeric

8 g
Deputy 臣
Bangi Fang Ji
防己 방기 · Sinomenium

8 g
Deputy 臣
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

4 g
Envoy 使
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

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Envoy 使

seven slices

Total 36 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient 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 wind cold and damp qi lodging as guests in the flesh and body with the hands and feet slack and weak and numb
Dispels wind damp from the flesh

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Wind cold damp lodging in the flesh with numbness
Damp impediment with slack weak limbs

Biomedical correlates

Peripheral neuropathy
Fibromyalgia

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治風寒濕氣客留肌體, 手足緩弱ㆍ麻痺. 羌活ㆍ白朮ㆍ薑黃ㆍ防己各二錢, 甘草一錢. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑七片, 水煎服. 《入門》

Translation

Treats wind, cold and damp qi lodging as guests in the flesh and body, with the hands and feet slack and weak and numb. Notopterygium, atractylodes, turmeric and stephania, 2 don each; licorice, 1 don. Cut up, make one packet, add seven slices of ginger and decoct in water. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Pung)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Five drugs, and the smallest formula in the impediment sections. Notopterygium for the wind, atractylodes and stephania for the damp, and turmeric — which the tradition uses for pain in the limbs rather than for the liver — to move the blood through flesh that has gone numb. Whoever composed it had a clear idea of what each drug was for, which is more than can be said of the twenty-drug formulas elsewhere in the chapter. It is also the base that the next entry augments. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.