Sheep's Lung Powder

Yangpye-san

한글 양폐산 · Pinyin Yang Fei San

羊肺散

Composition 構成

Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

160 g
Chief 君

4 nyang
Yangpye Yang Fei
羊肺 양폐 · Sheep's Lung

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Chief 君

one whole lung, the paste poured into it
Yukjongyong Rou Cong Rong
肉蓯蓉 육종용 · Cistanche

40 g
Deputy 臣
Moktong Mu Tong
木通 목통 · Akebia

40 g
Deputy 臣
Geongang Gan Jiang
乾薑 건강 · Dried Ginger

40 g
Deputy 臣
Cheongung Chuan Xiong
川芎 천궁 · Cnidium

40 g
Deputy 臣
Mitang Mi Tang
米湯 미탕 · Rice Water

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Envoy 使

rice water as the draught, after food

Total 320 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 the lung congested and raising polyps with no sense of smell

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

The lung congested — polyps and loss of smell

Biomedical correlates

Nasal polyp with anosmia

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治肺壅生瘜肉, 不聞香臭. 羊肺一具, 白朮四兩, 肉蓯蓉ㆍ木通ㆍ乾薑ㆍ川芎各一兩. 右五味爲細末, 以水量打稀糊, 灌肺中, 煮熟焙乾, 爲細末, 食後米飮下二錢. 《三因》

Translation

Treats the lung congested and raising polyps, with no sense of smell. One sheep's lung; white atractylodes 4 nyang; cistanche, akebia, dried ginger and chuanxiong 1 nyang each. Powder the five medicinals finely, beat with water into a thin paste, pour it into the lung, boil until cooked, bake dry and powder finely; take 2 don after food with rice water. — Samin 三因 (Donguibogam · Bi)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The medicines poured into a lung, cooked, dried and powdered whole — organ as vessel and as medicine. It is the chapter's one polyp formula taken by mouth, and the like-treats-like is the Navel chapter's at 21.3. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.