Formulas · Dispel Wind 祛風 · Jeoneul (錢乙)

Warm White Pill

Onbaek-hwan

한글 온백환 · Pinyin Wen Bai Wan

溫白丸

The transcription writes 為 for 爲, normalized here, and 白殭蚕, which the corpus prints in that form. The run 白附子生南星炮各一兩 is read as 白附子(生) and 南星(炮), each with its own preparation note, rather than as a single drug 生南星 — the alternative would make the same drug both raw and blast-fried. The flour paste (麪糊) is the binder and stays in the transcription and the translation only. A separate formula 溫白元 is already registered under onbaek-won, the 局方 croton and aconite pill for accumulations; the two names differ only in the dosage-form character and the two prescriptions have nothing in common.

Composition 構成

Baekgangjam Bai Jiang Can
白殭蠶 백강잠 · Silkworm

40 g
Chief 君

stir-fried (炒)
Baekbuja Bai Fu Zi
白附子 백부자 · Typhonium Rhizome

40 g
Chief 君

生, raw · toxic
Cheonnamseong Tian Nan Xing
天南星 천남성 · Arisaema

40 g
Deputy 臣

blast-fried (炮) · toxic raw
Cheonma Tian Ma
天麻 천마 · Gastrodia

20 g
Assistant 佐

生, raw
Jeongal Quan Xie
全蠍 전갈 · Scorpion (toxic)

4 g
Assistant 佐

toxic
Nokdu Lu Dou
菉豆 녹두 · Mung Bean

—
Envoy 使

菉豆大, the pills sized to a mung bean
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

—
Envoy 使

生薑米飮, as a ginger and rice draught

Total g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 2 ingredients 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 chronic fright wind
Made into mung-bean-sized pills and given down in a ginger and rice decoction

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Chronic fright wind with phlegm and slow twitching

Biomedical correlates

Convulsion in a depleted child

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治慢驚風. 白殭蚕(炒)ㆍ白附子(生)ㆍ南星(炮) 各一兩, 天麻(生) 五錢, 全蝎一錢. 右爲末, 麪糊和丸菉豆大, 生薑米飮下五七丸至二三十丸. 《錢乙》

Translation

Treats chronic fright wind. White stiff silkworm (stir-fried), typhonium (raw) and arisaema (blast-fried) 1 nyang each, gastrodia (raw) 5 don, scorpion 1 don. Grind to a powder, make into pills the size of a mung bean with flour paste, and give five to seven pills, up to twenty or thirty, down in a ginger and rice decoction. — Jeoneul 錢乙 (Donguibogam · Soa)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Four wind drugs and a scorpion, in a flour-paste pill the size of a mung bean. Stiff silkworm, typhonium, arisaema and gastrodia are the standard quartet this tradition reaches for when a child twitches, and the dose climbs steeply — five to seven pills, up to twenty or thirty. The child is the 慢驚風 child, pale and limp after a long diarrhoea, and the reading of what is wrong with him and what would have helped is in the note on `baekchul-san-soa`. **Contains raw typhonium (白附子) and arisaema (天南星), both toxic tubers whose acridity is only partly removed by the processing given here, together with scorpion, a neurotoxic animal venom. The patient is a child and the text gives no dose by weight anywhere — the instruction is a count of pills, and the count may be multiplied sixfold at the practitioner's discretion. Raw typhonium and arisaema are severe mucosal irritants and are given processed for that reason; the 生 marked on the typhonium here means it is not. This must not be prepared or given.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.