Formulas · Transform Phlegm 化痰 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Jade Powder Pill

Okbun-hwan

한글 옥분환 · Pinyin Yu Fen Wan

玉粉丸

The weights are the Cough chapter's, which gives the formula outright as tangerine peel 2 nyang with arisaema and pinellia 1 nyang each; the entry formerly carried the weights of Samseon-hwan, from which the Immun derives it.

Composition 構成

Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

80 g
Chief 君
Cheonnamseong Tian Nan Xing
天南星 천남성 · Arisaema

40 g
Deputy 臣

processed · toxic raw
Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

40 g
Deputy 臣

processed · toxic raw

Total 160 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

Transforms qi phlegm
Courses the qi and frees the throat

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Qi phlegm lodged in the throat
Plum-pit qi with a sense of obstruction
Chest and diaphragm glomus and oppression

Biomedical correlates

Globus sensation
Laryngopharyngeal reflux

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治氣痰. 以三仙丸一劑, 去香附, 加橘紅末二兩也. 《入門》 ○治氣痰咳嗽喘急. 陳皮二兩, 南星ㆍ半夏各一兩. 右爲末, 以薑汁浸蒸餠和丸, 薑湯下五七十丸. 《咳嗽門》

Translation

Treats qi phlegm. Take one batch of Three Immortals Pill, remove the cyperus, and add 2 nyang of powdered red tangerine peel. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Damum) ○ Treats qi phlegm with cough and hurried panting. Tangerine peel, 2 nyang; arisaema and pinellia, 1 nyang each. Grind to a powder, make pills with steamed cake soaked in ginger juice, and give fifty to seventy down with ginger decoction.

Clinical commentary 臨床

The same fermented leaven as Three Immortals Pill with one substitution: cyperus out, red tangerine peel in. Cyperus courses depressed qi in the liver and moves it outward; red tangerine peel moves qi in the middle and downward. The swap is what turns a damp phlegm formula into a qi phlegm one, and it shows how narrowly these two categories are distinguished — the phlegm base is identical, and only the medicinal that decides the direction changes. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.