Formulas · Calm the Spirit 安神 · Gyeongheombang (經驗方)
Embrace the Gall Pill
Podam-hwan
한글 포담환 · Pinyin Bao Dan Wan
First-edition collation: a note at the foot of leaf 069a records 包 for 勻 in the first edition; the locus cannot be fixed with certainty and this text's reading is kept.
Composition 構成
- Heugyeon黑鉛 흑연 · Lead (toxic)100 g
Chief 君melted in a pan
- Sueun水銀 수은 · Mercury (toxic)80 g
Chief 君added to the melted lead and left to granulate
- Jusa朱砂 주사 · Cinnabar (toxic)40 g
Deputy 臣 - Yuhyang乳香 유향 · Frankincense40 g
Deputy 臣powdered
Total 260 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.
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
- Weighs down and settles the spirit
- Brings on deep sleep
- Stops fits that follow terror
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Every kind of epilepsy and wind mania
- Mania brought on by terror
- Fits with sleeplessness
Biomedical correlates
- Epilepsy
- Acute psychosis
- Post-traumatic agitation
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治一切癲癎風狂, 或因驚怖所致. 先將黑鈆 二兩半入銚熔化, 次下水銀 二兩, 候結成砂子, 再下朱砂ㆍ乳香末 各一兩, 乗熱用柳木槌硏勻, 丸如芡實大. 每一丸空心井水呑下. 病者得睡, 切莫驚動, 覺來卽安. 再服一丸可除根. 《經驗方》 ○昔忠懿王之子得心疾, 合此藥, 偶有一風犬飼之卽甦. 因破犬腹視之, 則其藥抱犬膽, 故因名之. 《經驗方》
Translation
Treats every kind of withdrawal-epilepsy and wind mania, or such as is brought on by terror. First put 2 nyang 5 don of black lead into a pan and melt it; next add 2 nyang of quicksilver and wait until it granulates into grains; then add cinnabar and powdered frankincense, 1 nyang each, and while it is still hot grind it even with a willow-wood pestle and make pills the size of a water-chestnut. Take one on an empty stomach with well water. When the patient falls asleep, on no account disturb him; when he wakes he will be at ease. A second pill will remove the root. Formerly the son of King Chungui fell ill in his mind, and this medicine was compounded; a mad dog happened by and was fed it, and recovered at once. They cut open the dog's belly and looked, and the medicine was found clasping the dog's gall — and so it was named. — Gyeongheombang 經驗方 (Donguibogam · Sin)