Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Uibang Yuchwi (醫方類聚)

Minor Sagacious Powder

Sotongseong-san

한글 소통성산 · Pinyin Xiao Tong Sheng San

小通聖散

The minor counterpart to 防風通聖散; the source edition writes 陷 with a variant form in this section, normalized here.

Composition 構成

Ganghwal Qiang Huo
羌活 강활 · Notopterygium

4 g
Chief 君
Bangpung Fang Feng
防風 방풍 · Siler

4 g
Chief 君
Bakha Bo He
薄荷 박하 · Mint

4 g
Deputy 臣
Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

4 g
Deputy 臣
Chija Zhi Zi
梔子 치자 · Gardenia

4 g
Deputy 臣
Daehwang Da Huang
大黃 대황 · Rhubarb

4 g
Deputy 臣
Cheongung Chuan Xiong
川芎 천궁 · Cnidium

4 g
Assistant 佐
Gilgyeong Jie Geng
桔梗 길경 · Platycodon

4 g
Assistant 佐
Bangi Fang Ji
防己 방기 · Sinomenium

2 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

2 g
Envoy 使
Deungsim Deng Xin Cao
燈心草 등심초 · Rush Pith

—
Envoy 使

one ball
Jukyeop Zhu Ye
竹葉 죽엽 · Bamboo Leaf

—
Envoy 使

seven leaves

Total 36 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 wind heat with headache
sore throat and swollen cheeks
Drains wind heat from the head and face

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Wind heat in the head and face
Wind heat with sore throat and swelling

Biomedical correlates

Tonsillitis
Pharyngitis with facial swelling

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治風熱頭痛ㆍ咽疼ㆍ頰腫. 羌活ㆍ防風ㆍ薄荷ㆍ當歸ㆍ梔子ㆍ大黃ㆍ川芎ㆍ桔梗各一錢, 防己ㆍ甘草各五分. 右剉, 作一貼, 入燈心一團, 竹葉七片, 同煎服. 《得效》

Translation

Treats wind heat with headache, sore throat and swollen cheeks. Notopterygium, saposhnikovia, mint, tangkuei, gardenia, rhubarb, chuanxiong and platycodon, 1 don each; stephania and licorice, 5 fun each. Cut up, make one packet, add one ball of juncus pith and seven bamboo leaves, and decoct together. — Uibang Yuchwi 得效 (Donguibogam · Pung)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The small version of Bangpung-tongseong-san, and the trimming is intelligent: the ephedra, gypsum and mirabilite are gone, rhubarb alone keeps the purging, and juncus pith and bamboo leaf are added to lead heat out through the urine. The indication narrows to match — headache, sore throat, swollen cheeks, which is to say a wind-heat throat infection rather than a stroke. It sits in the wind chapter because the Xuanming's wind-heat category covered both, and a modern reader will find it more useful for the throat than for anything cerebral. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.