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

Wind Gan Pill

Punggam-hwan

한글 풍감환 · Pinyin Feng Gan Wan

風疳丸

Composition 構成

Cheongdae Qing Dai
靑黛 청대 · Natural Indigo

8 g
Chief 君

2 don
Hwangryeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

8 g
Chief 君

2 don
Cheonma Tian Ma
天麻 천마 · Gastrodia

8 g
Deputy 臣

2 don
Oryeongji Wu Ling Zhi
五靈脂 오령지 · Flying Squirrel Feces

8 g
Deputy 臣

2 don
Yamyeongsa Ye Ming Sha
夜明砂 야명사 · Bat Droppings

8 g
Deputy 臣

2 don
Cheongung Chuan Xiong
川芎 천궁 · Cnidium

8 g
Deputy 臣

2 don
Yongdamcho Long Dan Cao
龍膽草 용담초 · Gentian

6 g
Deputy 臣

草龍膽
Bangpung Fang Feng
防風 방풍 · Siler

6 g
Deputy 臣

1 don 5 pun
Seontoe Chan Tui
蟬退 선퇴 · Cicada Moulting

6 g
Deputy 臣

蟬殼
Geonseom Gan Chan
乾蟾 건섬 · Dried Toad

12 g
Assistant 佐

乾蟾頭
Nohoe Lu Hui
蘆薈 노회 · Aloe

8 g
Assistant 佐

2 don
Jeongal Quan Xie
全蠍 전갈 · Scorpion (toxic)

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Assistant 佐

two scorpions
Jeodamjeup Zhu Dan Zhi
猪膽汁 저담즙 · Pig Bile

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Envoy 使

the cake for the pills is steeped in it

Total 86 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 a child's liver gan with sparrow eye

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Child's liver gan with night blindness
Heat accumulation in a malnourished child

Biomedical correlates

Night blindness in childhood malnutrition
Keratomalacia

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治小兒肝疳雀目. 靑黛ㆍ黃連ㆍ天麻ㆍ五靈脂ㆍ夜明砂ㆍ川芎ㆍ蘆薈各二錢, 草龍膽ㆍ防風ㆍ蟬殼各一錢半, 全蝎二枚, 乾蟾頭三錢. 右爲末, 猪膽汁浸糕和丸麻子大, 薄荷湯下十丸. 《入門》

Translation

Treats a child's liver gan with sparrow eye. Indigo, coptis, gastrodia, flying-squirrel droppings, bat droppings, chuanxiong and aloe 2 don each; gentian, saposhnikovia and cicada slough 1 don 5 pun each; two whole scorpions; dried toad's head 3 don. Powder them, bind with cake steeped in pig bile into pills the size of hemp seeds, and take ten down with mint decoction. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · An)

Clinical commentary 臨床

A child's gan is malnutrition with heat, and sparrow eye in a gan child is the start of the corneal melting that blinds. Bat droppings run through all three of this chapter's night-blindness formulas, and the reason is the same as the liver's: the droppings are largely insect remains, and vitamin A is in them. The toad's head and the scorpions are for the gan rather than the eye. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.