Disperse Wind Powder

Seonpung-san

한글 선풍산 · Pinyin Xuan Feng San

宣風散

The gold or silver vessel is apparatus and is kept in the transcription and the translation rather than entered as an ingredient. 宣風散 is prescribed for 撮口 in 1.17.1 and for 臍風 in 1.17.2 as well as in this section.

Composition 構成

Jeongal Quan Xie
全蠍 전갈 · Scorpion (toxic)

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Chief 君

全蝎, twenty-one whole ones, wine-roasted · toxic
Sahyang She Xiang
麝香 사향 · Musk (prohibited)

1 g
Deputy 臣

powdered, 1 ja · CITES Appendix I

Total 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

Treats navel wind and pursed mouth, constant crying with refusal of the breast, white froth at the mouth
Given internally, half a ja at a time, in a decoction boiled in a gold or silver vessel

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Navel wind and pursed mouth with white froth at the mouth
Crying day and night, unable to take the breast

Biomedical correlates

Neonatal tetanus

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治臍風ㆍ撮口ㆍ多啼不乳ㆍ口出白沫. 全蝎二十一箇(全者, 酒灸), 爲末, 入麝香末一字, 和勻. 每取半字, 以金銀器煎湯調下. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats navel wind and pursed mouth, constant crying with refusal of the breast, and white froth at the mouth. Twenty-one whole scorpions (whole ones, wine-roasted), powdered, with 1 ja of powdered musk stirred in evenly. Take half a ja at a time, stirred into a decoction boiled in a gold or silver vessel. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Soa)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Scorpion and musk, and nothing else: twenty-one whole scorpions rather than the tails alone, roasted in wine, with a ja of musk to carry it. The dose is half a ja, and the vehicle is water boiled in a gold or silver pot — a vessel chosen for what the metal was thought to lend the draught rather than for anything it does. The signs the leaf lists are a clinical picture and a good one: froth at the mouth, ceaseless crying, a baby that will not take the breast. In 1.17.1 撮口 the chapter adds that froth at the mouth with the limbs gone ice-cold is the worst sign of all, 最爲惡候, and that is accurate — it describes a newborn in the terminal phase of tetanus, spasming, unable to swallow, and shutting down. For what the condition is, why nothing in the section reaches it, and what cord care actually prevents it, see the note on `heolcho-san-soa`. **Contains scorpion, a neurotoxic animal venom, given internally to a newborn, at a strength that cannot be measured and a dose the text never states by weight; and musk, CITES Appendix I and prohibited in trade. This must not be prepared or given.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.