Formulas · Dispel Wind 祛風 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Great Unity Powder

Taeeul-san

한글 태을산 · Pinyin Tai Yi San

太乙散

天漿子 — the cocoon of the slug caterpillar, also called 雀甕 — is not carried in the herb list under either spelling, so it is named here and left out of the ingredient list. The section text above the leaf prescribes this formula by name, 太乙散亦佳.

Composition 構成

Cheonjangja Tian Jiang Zi
天漿子 천장자 · Cup Moth Cocoon with Larva (toxic)

8 g
Chief 君

2 don · the cup-moth cocoon with its overwintering larva, toxic
Cheonnamseong Tian Nan Xing
天南星 천남성 · Arisaema

8 g
Chief 君

天南星, 2 don · toxic raw, must be properly processed
Baekbuja Bai Fu Zi
白附子 백부자 · Typhonium Rhizome

8 g
Chief 君

2 don · toxic
Cheonma Tian Ma
天麻 천마 · Gastrodia

8 g
Deputy 臣

2 don
Bangpung Fang Feng
防風 방풍 · Siler

8 g
Deputy 臣

2 don
Baekbongnyeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

8 g
Assistant 佐

2 don
Jeongal Quan Xie
全蠍 전갈 · Scorpion (toxic)

4 g
Assistant 佐

全蝎, 1 don · neurotoxic
Jusa Zhu Sha
朱砂 주사 · Cinnabar (toxic)

4 g
Assistant 佐

1 don · cinnabar, mercuric sulfide, toxic
Sahyang She Xiang
麝香 사향 · Musk (prohibited)

1 g
Envoy 使

one ja · musk, CITES Appendix I
Inyu Ren Ru
人乳 인유 · Human Milk

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Envoy 使

乳汁, breast milk, as the vehicle

Total 57 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 fetal fright
Given as 5 fun of powder dissolved in breast milk

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

胎驚 — fetal fright, the convulsion present from birth

Biomedical correlates

Neonatal seizure

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治胎驚. 天漿子ㆍ天南星ㆍ白附子ㆍ天麻ㆍ防風ㆍ白茯苓各二錢, 全蝎ㆍ朱砂各一錢, 麝香一字. 右爲末, 每取五分, 乳汁化下. 《入門》

Translation

Treats fetal fright. Slug-caterpillar cocoon, arisaema, typhonium, gastrodia, saposhnikovia and white poria, 2 don each; whole scorpion and cinnabar, 1 don each; musk, one ja. Powder the above and give 5 fun at a time, dissolved in breast milk. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Soa)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The wind-extinguishing shelf of the chapter, assembled: arisaema and typhonium to break phlegm, gastrodia and saposhnikovia for the wind, poria to settle, scorpion and musk and cinnabar for the fright. The slug-caterpillar cocoon at the head of the list is the one unusual drug — a small animal material taken for convulsion on the same reasoning as the scorpion, that a creature which moves in spasms will govern spasm. Five fun of powder in breast milk is the whole dose, and five fun is about 2 g of a mixture containing cinnabar. **Contains cinnabar — 朱砂, mercuric sulfide — scorpion, musk, raw arisaema and typhonium, given to a newborn with no dose by weight stated for the child. This must not be prepared.** The mercury paragraph under Jinsa-go-soa applies here in full. Arisaema is severely irritant and toxic unless properly processed and this leaf specifies no processing at all; typhonium is handled as toxic throughout this corpus. There is no treatment for a neonatal seizure in this list. What such a baby needs is a blood glucose, a calcium, a culture and a lumbar puncture, and the cause found. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.