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Formulas · Dispel Wind 祛風 · Danggye Simbeop (丹溪心法)

Prolong Life Boiled Powder

Seungmyeongja-san

한글 속명자산  ·  Pinyin Xu Ming Zhu San

續命煮散

A 煮散 — a coarse powder boiled rather than a cut decoction — hence the name; the Bogam nevertheless gives it the 剉 instruction.

Composition 構成

Total 29 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

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Wind with vacuity and spontaneous sweating
  • Defence qi insecurity with wind

Biomedical correlates

  • Stroke sequelae with sweating
  • Autonomic instability after stroke

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治風虛自汗. 桂皮 七分半, 防風ㆍ獨活ㆍ當歸ㆍ人參ㆍ細辛ㆍ乾葛ㆍ芍藥ㆍ川芎ㆍ熟地黃ㆍ荊芥穗ㆍ遠志ㆍ半夏ㆍ甘草 各五分. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑 三片, 同煎服. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats wind vacuity with spontaneous sweating. Cassia bark, 7 fun 5 ri; saposhnikovia, pubescent angelica, tangkuei, ginseng, asarum, pueraria, peony, chuanxiong, cooked rehmannia, schizonepeta spike, polygala, pinellia and licorice, 5 fun each. Cut up, make one packet, add three slices of ginger and decoct together. — Danggye Simbeop 丹心 (Donguibogam · Pung)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The corrective at the end of the sweating section, and placing it there is the chapter's own qualification of its doctrine: wind may not be removed without a great sweat, but a patient already sweating spontaneously cannot be sweated further. So the ephedra and aconite of the Soseungmyeong-tang family are gone, cassia and ginseng hold the surface, and the four-substance blood group fills what the sweating has emptied. Of the Prolong Life group this is the one for the depleted patient, and it reads as a thoughtful modification rather than a new formula. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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