Formulas · Transform Phlegm 化痰 · Dansim (丹心)

Arisaema and Cyperus Pill

Seonghyang-hwan

한글 성향환 · Pinyin Xing Xiang Wan

星香丸

The transcription gives 南星ㆍ半夏三兩 without 各; 3 nyang of each is the reading taken here, as the parallel weights of the other drugs require.

Composition 構成

Cheonnamseong Tian Nan Xing
天南星 천남성 · Arisaema

120 g
Chief 君

steeped overnight in alum water, not heated · toxic in the raw state
Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

120 g
Chief 君

steeped overnight in alum water, not heated · toxic in the raw state
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

120 g
Deputy 臣

5 nyang steeped a day and a night in rice-washing water, the white scraped off and 3 nyang taken
Hyangbuja Xiang Fu
香附子 향부자 · Cyperus

120 g
Deputy 臣

steeped a full day in soapberry water and sun-dried
Baekban Bai Fan
白礬 백반 · Alum

40 g
Assistant 佐

ground and dissolved in the water the two drugs are steeped in
Jogak Zao Jiao
皂角 조각 · Gleditsia Pod

—
Envoy 使

as the water the cyperus is steeped in
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

—
Envoy 使

the juice, as the paste for the pills, and ginger decoction as the draught

Total 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 qi cough with the forming of phlegm

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Qi cough with damp phlegm

Biomedical correlates

Chronic productive cough

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治氣嗽生痰. 南星ㆍ半夏三兩, 白礬一兩(硏), 和水浸二味一宿; 陳皮五兩(泔浸一晝夜, 去白取三兩), 香附子三兩(皂角水浸一伏時, 晒乾). 右不見火爲末, 薑汁糊和丸梧子大, 薑湯下五七十丸. 此乃家傳秘方, 累驗. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats qi cough with the forming of phlegm. Arisaema and pinellia, 3 nyang; alum, 1 nyang, ground and dissolved in water, in which the two drugs are steeped overnight; tangerine peel, 5 nyang, steeped a day and a night in rice-washing water with the white scraped off, of which 3 nyang are taken; cyperus, 3 nyang, steeped a full day in soapberry water and dried in the sun. Powder them without letting them near the fire, make pills the size of a paulownia seed with a ginger-juice paste, and give fifty to seventy down with ginger decoction. This is a secret formula handed down in the family, and has been proved again and again. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Haesu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Every drug in this formula is processed before it is used and none of them is heated: arisaema and pinellia steeped overnight in alum water, tangerine peel in rice-washing water, cyperus in soapberry water. 不見火, never shown the fire, is stated as a rule, and the alum and soapberry steeping is doing the work that roasting would otherwise do. **Arisaema and pinellia are both toxic in the raw state, and here they are deliberately not heated. Alum steeping is a traditional processing method and does not make them safe. This must not be prepared.** The family-secret claim at the end is the Dansim's own and is the sort of provenance note the Bogam copies without comment. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.