Formulas · Invigorate Blood 活血祛瘀 · Hwalsim (活心)
Divine Spirit Elixir
Sinryeong-dan
한글 신령단 · Pinyin Shen Ling Dan
Source annotation 《活心》; no prior entry in this database uses this source.
Composition 構成
- Oryeongji五靈脂 오령지 · Flying Squirrel Feces40 g
Chief 君 - Pohwang蒲黃 포황 · Cattail Pollen40 g
Chief 君stir-fried (炒)
- Yangang良薑 양강 · Lesser Galangal20 g
Deputy 臣5 don, fried with twenty blister beetles, which are discarded
- Bangi防己 방기 · Sinomenium20 g
Deputy 臣5 don
- Banmyo斑猫 반묘 · Blister Beetle—
Assistant 佐斑猫, 20, fried with the galangal and thrown away · severely toxic
- Cho醋 초 · Vinegar—
Envoy 使vinegar paste for binding; mugwort and vinegar decoction as draught
- Aeyeop艾葉 애엽 · Mugwort Leaf—
Envoy 使with the vinegar
Total 120 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 3 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.
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Actions 效能
- Treats sudden heart pain especially — it answers at once
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Acute heart pain
Biomedical correlates
- Acute epigastric pain
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
專治急心痛立效. 五靈脂ㆍ蒲黃(炒) 各一兩, 良薑 五錢<span class='sochu'>以斑猫二十箇同炒焦去猫</span>, 防己 五錢. 右細末, 醋糊和丸如皂角子大, 每一丸, 艾醋湯調下; 或爲末酒下二錢亦可. 《活心》
Translation
Treats sudden heart pain especially; it answers at once. Flying-squirrel droppings and cattail pollen (stir-fried) 1 nyang each; lesser galangal 5 don <span class='sochu'>fried with twenty blister beetles until scorched, the beetles then discarded</span>; stephania 5 don. Powder finely, bind with vinegar paste into pills the size of a gleditsia seed, and take one stirred into a decoction of mugwort and vinegar; or powder it and take 2 don with wine. — Hwalsim 活心 (Donguibogam · Hyung)