Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Fritillaria Powder

Paemo-san

한글 패모산 · Pinyin Bei Mu San

貝母散

The chapter carries a second and different 貝母散 among the 痰喘 formulas; this is the one cited for 熱嗽 and 火嗽, and the two are registered separately.

Composition 構成

Haengin Xing Ren
杏仁 행인 · Apricot Kernel

12 g
Chief 君
Paemo Bei Mu
貝母 패모 · Fritillaria

4 g
Chief 君
Gwandonghwa Kuan Dong Hua
款冬花 관동화 · Coltsfoot Flower

8 g
Deputy 臣
Jimo Zhi Mu
知母 지모 · Anemarrhena

6 g
Deputy 臣
Sangbaekpi Sang Bai Pi
桑白皮 상백피 · Mulberry Root Bark

4 g
Deputy 臣
Omija Wu Wei Zi
五味子 오미자 · Schisandra

4 g
Assistant 佐
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

three slices

Total 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 fire cough and long-standing cough

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Fire cough with a dry throat
Long-standing cough from heat in the lung

Biomedical correlates

Chronic cough with bronchial irritation

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治火嗽ㆍ久嗽. 杏仁三錢, 款冬花二錢, 知母一錢半, 貝母ㆍ桑白皮ㆍ五味子ㆍ甘草各一錢. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑三片, 水煎服. 《入門》

Translation

Treats fire cough and long-standing cough. Apricot kernel, 3 don; tussilago, 2 don; anemarrhena, 1 don 5 fun; fritillaria, mulberry root bark, schisandra and licorice, 1 don each. Cut up, make one packet, add three slices of ginger, and decoct in water. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Haesu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Named for its smallest drug, as Gwandonghwa-san is, and built the other way round from the cold-cough formulas: no ephedra, no ginger in the body of it, and anemarrhena and fritillaria carrying the cooling. Apricot kernel at 3 don is the real lead, which makes it a descending formula first and a cooling one second. 火嗽 and 久嗽 together in one indication is worth noting — the chapter treats a cough that has outlasted its cause as a heat condition, because what is left after the phlegm has gone is dryness and irritation. That is a fair description of the post-infectious cough, and cooling and moistening is the right instinct for it. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.