Formulas · Dispel Wind 祛風 · Tangssi (湯氏)

Eight Immortals Powder

Palseon-san

한글 팔선산 · Pinyin Ba Xian San

八仙散

冬瓜仁 is entered under donggwaja 冬瓜子, the same drug under its other spelling, which is how the corpus already handles it in five places. The source label 湯氏 does not occur anywhere else in the corpus and is romanised Tangssi. 二分半 is entered as 1 g and 一分 as 0.4 g, following the chapter's weight table. The section prose at the head of 1.30 prescribes this leaf for the case with depletion wind and much phlegm, and 釀乳方 prescribes it by name once the vomiting has settled.

Composition 構成

Cheonma Tian Ma
天麻 천마 · Gastrodia

1 g
Chief 君
Baekbuja Bai Fu Zi
白附子 백부자 · Typhonium Rhizome

1 g
Chief 君

toxic
Baekhwasa Bai Hua She
白花蛇 백화사 · Pit Viper (CITES-listed)

1 g
Deputy 臣

白花蛇肉, the flesh
Bangpung Fang Feng
防風 방풍 · Siler

1 g
Deputy 臣
Cheonnamseong Tian Nan Xing
天南星 천남성 · Arisaema

1 g
Deputy 臣

toxic raw
Banhaguk Ban Xia Qu
半夏麴 반하국 · Fermented Pinellia

1 g
Assistant 佐
Donggwaja Dong Gua Zi
冬瓜子 동과자 · Winter Melon Seed

1 g
Assistant 佐

冬瓜仁
Jeongal Quan Xie
全蠍 전갈 · Scorpion (toxic)

1 g
Assistant 佐

toxic
Cheono Chuan Wu
川烏 천오 · Aconite Main Root

0.4 g
Assistant 佐

added, 1 fun · toxic
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

—
Envoy 使

two slices
Daejo Da Zao
大棗 대조 · Jujube

—
Envoy 使

one jujube
Bakha Bo He
薄荷 박하 · Mint

—
Envoy 使

two leaves

Total g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 3 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 with depletion wind
Cut up as one packet and decocted with ginger, jujube and mint

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Chronic fright with depletion wind and copious phlegm

Biomedical correlates

Convulsion in a depleted child

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治慢驚虛風. 天麻ㆍ白附子ㆍ白花蛇肉ㆍ防風ㆍ南星ㆍ半夏麴ㆍ冬瓜仁ㆍ全蝎各二分半, 加川烏一分. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑二棗一ㆍ薄荷二葉, 同煎服. 《湯氏》

Translation

Treats chronic fright with depletion wind. Gastrodia, typhonium, the flesh of the white-patterned snake, saposhnikovia, arisaema, half-summer leaven, winter-melon seed and scorpion 2 fun 5 ri each, with aconite 1 fun added. Cut up and make into one packet; add 2 slices of ginger, 1 jujube and 2 mint leaves, decoct together and take. — Tangssi 湯氏 (Donguibogam · Soa)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Eight drugs at two fun five ri each, with a fun of aconite added on top — gastrodia, typhonium, snake flesh, saposhnikovia, arisaema, half-summer leaven, winter-melon seed and scorpion. Everything in it except the leaven and the melon seed is a wind drug, and three of them are poisons. The weights are tiny, which matters, but the composition is the section's whole animal and tuber shelf in one packet. 白花蛇 is the flesh of a pit viper, dried; it is a protected species in much of its range and the trade in it is a conservation problem as well as a clinical one. The child is the 慢驚風 child; see the note on `baekchul-san-soa` for what is wrong with him and what would have reached it. **Contains aconite (川烏), typhonium (白附子), arisaema (天南星) and scorpion, given together to a child. Aconitine has almost no margin between an effect and a fatal cardiac arrhythmia, the lethal dose overlaps the therapeutic one, and no way of measuring the dose existed; typhonium and arisaema are toxic acrid tubers; dried scorpion is a neurotoxic venom that cannot be standardised. The text gives no dose by weight for the patient anywhere. This must not be prepared or given.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.