Formulas · Warm the Interior 溫裏 · Boje Bonsabang (普濟本事方)

Dispel the Yin Powder

Toeeum-san

한글 퇴음산 · Pinyin Tui Yin San

退陰散

The two-stage grinding — coarse, fried, cooled, then ground fine — is given in the source; the equal parts are converted here at 5 don each.

Composition 構成

Cheono Chuan Wu
川烏 천오 · Aconite Main Root

20 g
Chief 君

dry-fried until the colour turns · toxic
Geongang Gan Jiang
乾薑 건강 · Dried Ginger

20 g
Chief 君

dry-fried until the colour turns
Yeom Yan
鹽 염 · Salt

—
Envoy 使

a pinch

Total 40 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 the yin toxin of cold damage
Dry-fried until the colour turns
then powdered and decocted with a pinch of salt

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Yin toxin with interior cold
Cold in the middle and lower burners

Biomedical correlates

Hypothermia
Cold-type collapse

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治傷寒陰毒. 川烏ㆍ乾薑等分. 右爲粗末, 炒令轉色, 放冷, 再爲細末. 每一錢, 鹽一捻ㆍ水少許, 同煎溫服. 《本事》

Translation

Treats the yin toxin of cold damage. Aconite kusnezoffii and dried ginger in equal parts. Make a coarse powder, dry-fry until the colour turns, let cool, and powder finely again. 1 don each time with a pinch of salt and a little water, decocted together and taken warm. — Boje Bonsabang 本事 (Donguibogam · Han)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Two drugs and a careful preparation: ground coarse so the heat penetrates, dry-fried until the colour changes, cooled, then ground fine. Dry-frying aconite kusnezoffii is a genuine detoxification step and the colour change is the compounder's endpoint for it, which makes this the most responsibly prepared of the chapter's aconite formulas. The pinch of salt is there to lead the drugs downward to the kidney. One don a dose is also modest by the standards of this section. Aconite kusnezoffii remains cardiotoxic even fried. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.