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Formulas · External Application 外用 · Manbyeong Hoechun (萬病回春)

Grand Granary Lord's Ward Off Pestilence Elixir

Taechanggongbyeogon-dan

한글 태창공벽온단  ·  Pinyin Tai Cang Gong Bi Wen Dan

太倉公辟瘟丹

紫草, arnebia or Lithospermum root, has no entry in the herb list and is left out of the ingredients above. 桂皮 is registered under 肉桂, 三乃子 under 山柰, and 皂角 and 皂莢 under the one headword. The source label 囬春 of the transcription is given in its standard form 回春.

Composition 構成

Total 2574 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

  • Pestilence (瘟疫) to be driven off
  • Evil qi (邪氣) to be scattered
  • A dwelling or sickroom in a season of epidemic illness

Biomedical correlates

  • Prevention of epidemic illness — historical fumigation
  • Aromatic fumigation of a dwelling during an outbreak

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

辟却瘟疫, 幷散邪氣. 蒼朮 八兩, 烏藥ㆍ黃連ㆍ白朮ㆍ羌活 各四兩, 川烏ㆍ草烏ㆍ細辛ㆍ紫草ㆍ防風ㆍ獨活ㆍ藁本ㆍ白芷ㆍ香附子ㆍ當歸ㆍ荊芥ㆍ天麻ㆍ桂皮ㆍ甘松ㆍ三乃子ㆍ白芍藥ㆍ乾薑ㆍ麻黃ㆍ皂角ㆍ甘草 各二兩, 麝香 三錢半. 右爲末, 蒸棗取肉和丸彈子大, 每取一丸燒之. 《回春》

Translation

Drives off pestilence and scatters evil qi besides. Atractylodes lancea 8 nyang; lindera, coptis, white atractylodes and notopterygium 4 nyang each; chuanwu aconite, caowu aconite, asarum, arnebia, siler, pubescent angelica, ligusticum sinense, angelica dahurica, cyperus, tangkuei, schizonepeta, gastrodia, cinnamon bark, nardostachys, sand ginger, white peony, dried ginger, ephedra, gleditsia pod and licorice 2 nyang each; musk 3 don 5 fun. Powder the above, steam jujubes and take their flesh to bind pills the size of a bullet, and burn one pill at a time. — Hoechun 回春 (Donguibogam · On)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Twenty-five drugs, and not one of them is swallowed. Eight nyang of atractylodes lancea heads a list that runs through the whole aromatic and wind-dispelling pharmacy — notopterygium, siler, pubescent angelica, ligusticum, angelica dahurica, schizonepeta, nardostachys, sand ginger — with both aconites, dried ginger and ephedra for heat, coptis and arnebia for the opposite, and three don and a half of musk at the end to carry the smell. Bound with steamed jujube flesh into bullet-sized pills, it is burnt one pill at a time. The chapter's reasoning is visible in the choice: these are the drugs the Bogam uses when it wants a smell strong enough to shift the air of a room, and the preventive section just before this one says plainly that the sickness of a pestilent house arises as a foul qi that is smelled and so passes on. Fumigating a dwelling is the answer that follows from that premise. It is also, read with modern eyes, the one warding method in the section that might incidentally have done something, by driving people to open the doors and burn out a closed room — the Deukhyo text a few leaves earlier says to open the doors first. **Contains both chuanwu and caowu aconite, which are toxic, and musk from a protected species. Burning aconite and breathing the smoke is its own hazard, and this must not be prepared.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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