Formulas · Stop Cough & Wheeze 止咳平喘 · Dansim (丹心)

Warm the Metal Powder

Ongeum-san

한글 온금산 · Pinyin Wen Jin San

溫金散

Composition 構成

Bangpung Fang Feng
防風 방풍 · Siler

40 g
Chief 君

steeped overnight in rice-washing water with the next four and sun-dried
Sangbaekpi Sang Bai Pi
桑白皮 상백피 · Mulberry Root Bark

40 g
Chief 君

steeped overnight in rice-washing water and sun-dried
Hwanggeum Huang Qin
黃芩 황금 · Scutellaria

40 g
Deputy 臣

steeped overnight in rice-washing water and sun-dried
Haengin Xing Ren
杏仁 행인 · Apricot Kernel

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Deputy 臣

twenty-one kernels, skins and tips removed, steeped overnight in rice-washing water and sun-dried
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

20 g
Deputy 臣

added after the first five are dried
Boksin Fu Shen
茯神 복신 · Poria with hostwood

20 g
Assistant 佐

added after the first five are dried
Maengmundong Mai Men Dong
麥門冬 맥문동 · Liriope

10 g
Assistant 佐

added after the first five are dried
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

40 g
Envoy 使

steeped overnight in rice-washing water and sun-dried
Hwangnap Huang La
黃蠟 황랍 · Beeswax

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Envoy 使

"a soybean's bulk, decocted with each dose"

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 taxation cough

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Taxation cough with wind and heat lodged in the lung

Biomedical correlates

Chronic cough

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治勞嗽. 防風ㆍ桑白皮ㆍ黃芩ㆍ甘草各一兩, 杏仁(去皮尖) 二十一粒, 人參ㆍ茯神各五錢, 麥門冬二錢半. 右取前五味, 入米泔水浸一宿, 晒乾, 次入人參ㆍ茯神ㆍ麥門冬, 同爲末, 每取三錢, 入黃蠟大豆許, 煎服. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats taxation cough. Siler, mulberry root bark, scutellaria and licorice, 1 nyang each; apricot kernel with the skins and tips removed, twenty-one kernels; ginseng and poria with wood, 5 don each; ophiopogon, 2 don 5 fun. Take the first five, steep them overnight in rice-washing water and dry them in the sun; then add the ginseng, poria with wood and ophiopogon and powder them together. Take 3 don each time with a soybean's bulk of beeswax, decocted. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Haesu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Two preparations in one formula, and the order matters: the five drying and dispersing drugs are steeped overnight in rice-washing water and dried before being powdered, while the three supplementing ones are added afterwards untreated. Rice-washing water is the standard medium for taking the harshness off a drug, and the method says what the formula is for — a taxation cough in a patient who cannot take a plain dispersing prescription. The beeswax melted into each dose is unusual and is what gives the formula its name: a small piece of wax in a hot decoction coats the throat as it cools. The same reasoning as the lozenge forms elsewhere in the chapter. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.