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Cyperus and Chuanxiong Powder

Sagung-san

한글 사궁산  ·  Pinyin Sha Xiong San

莎芎散

Composition 構成

Total 240 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

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Nosebleed

Biomedical correlates

  • Epistaxis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治衄血. 香附子 四兩, 川芎 二兩. 右爲末, 每二錢, 茶淸調下, 不以時. 丹溪心法, 芎附飮同. 香附開鬱行氣, 使邪火散於經絡. 川芎和血通肝, 使血歸於肝藏. 血歸火散, 其血立止. 《入門》

Translation

Treats nosebleed. Cyperus 4 nyang, chuanxiong 2 nyang. Powder them and take 2 don at a time stirred into clear tea, at any hour. The Danggye Simbeop's Chuanxiong and Cyperus Drink is the same. Cyperus opens depression and moves the qi, so that the evil fire scatters into the channels; chuanxiong harmonizes the blood and communicates with the liver, so that the blood returns to the liver. The blood returned and the fire scattered, the bleeding stops at once. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Hyeol)

Clinical commentary 臨床

A nosebleed treated with two qi-movers and no astringent, and the Immun gives the reasoning: the blood is out because the qi is depressed and the fire has nowhere to go. Open the qi, scatter the fire, and the blood goes back where it belongs. 莎 is the old name for cyperus, and the formula's name in the Dansim is 芎附飮. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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