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Formulas · Tonify Qi & Blood 氣血雙補 · Uibang Yuchwi (醫方類聚)

Eight Treasures Return of Spring Decoction

Palbo-hoechun-tang

한글 팔보회춘탕  ·  Pinyin Ba Bao Hui Chun Tang

八寶回春湯

The closing line — eight dispel wind, eight harmonize the qi, eight quicken the blood — is the Deughyobang's own analysis of its formula and the source of the name's eight treasures.

Composition 構成

Total 43.6 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

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Wind with qi and blood vacuity
  • Qi and blood disharmony with wind

Biomedical correlates

  • Post-stroke convalescence
  • Chronic paresis with debility

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治一切風虛諸證. 去風ㆍ和氣ㆍ活血, 大有神效. 夫氣血和平ㆍ榮衛調順, 則風證自去. 白芍藥 一錢二分, 黃芪 八分, 白朮 六分, 茯神ㆍ半夏 各五分, 附子ㆍ人參ㆍ麻黃ㆍ黃芩ㆍ防己ㆍ香附子ㆍ杏仁ㆍ川芎ㆍ當歸ㆍ陳皮ㆍ防風ㆍ肉桂ㆍ乾薑ㆍ熟地黃ㆍ生乾地黃ㆍ甘草 各四分, 沉香ㆍ烏藥ㆍ川烏 各三分. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑 三片, 棗 二枚, 水煎服. 右八味去風, 八味和氣, 八味活血. 《得效》

Translation

Treats all patterns of wind with vacuity; dispels wind, harmonizes the qi and quickens the blood, with great and spirit-like effect. For when the qi and blood are at peace and the construction and defence are regulated and smooth, the wind pattern departs of itself. White peony, 1 don 2 fun; astragalus, 8 fun; atractylodes, 6 fun; poria spirit and pinellia, 5 fun each; aconite, ginseng, ephedra, scutellaria, stephania, cyperus, apricot kernel, chuanxiong, tangkuei, tangerine peel, saposhnikovia, cassia bark, dried ginger, cooked rehmannia, raw dried rehmannia and licorice, 4 fun each; aquilaria, lindera and aconite kusnezoffii, 3 fun each. Cut up, make one packet, add three slices of ginger and two jujubes, and decoct in water. Of the above, eight drugs dispel wind, eight harmonize the qi and eight quicken the blood. — Uibang Yuchwi 得效 (Donguibogam · Pung)

Clinical commentary 臨床

A formula that explains its own architecture, which is rare and worth having: twenty-four drugs in three groups of eight, one group for wind, one for qi, one for blood. The stated principle is the whole Jin-Yuan correction in a sentence — when the qi and blood are at peace the wind pattern departs of itself — and the prescription follows it literally rather than attacking the wind. In practice twenty-four drugs at four fun each is homeopathically thin, and the formula is more interesting as a statement of doctrine than as a medicine. Aconite and aconite kusnezoffii both appear, in small amounts but together. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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