Formulas · Calm the Spirit 安神 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Bat Powder

Pyeonbok-san

한글 편복산 · Pinyin Bian Fu San

蝙蝠散

Composition 構成

Pyeonbok Bian Fu
蝙蝠 편복 · Bat

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Chief 君

one large hibernating bat
Jusa Zhu Sha
朱砂 주사 · Cinnabar (toxic)

12 g
Deputy 臣

packed into the bat's belly

Total 12 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

Settles the spirit in epilepsy

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Epilepsy
Fits in a child

Biomedical correlates

Epilepsy

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治癎. 取入蟄大蝙蝠一箇, 以朱砂三錢塡入腹內, 新瓦上火灸令酥爲度, 候冷爲末. 每一箇分作四服, 年幼者作五服, 空心白湯調下. 《入門》

Translation

Treats epilepsy. Take one large bat that has gone into hibernation, pack 3 don of cinnabar into its belly, roast it over fire on a new tile until it crumbles, and when it is cool powder it. Divide each bat into four doses, or five for a young child, and take on an empty stomach stirred into plain hot water. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Sin)

Clinical commentary 臨床

**This must not be prepared.** Cinnabar, and a wild bat taken from hibernation — bats are a reservoir of zoonotic viruses, which is reason enough on its own. 入蟄, having gone into hibernation, specifies the season rather than the species. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.