Formulas · Dispel Wind 祛風 · Hagan Yubang (河間遺方)

Antelope Horn Decoction for Sinew Impediment

Yeongyanggak-tang

한글 영양각탕 · Pinyin Ling Yang Jiao Tang

羚羊角湯

Registered with the chapter suffix to distinguish it from the 羚羊角湯 of the Jeongjeon transmitted elsewhere in the book. 羚羊角 is from a CITES-listed species.

Composition 構成

Yeongyanggak Ling Yang Jiao
羚羊角 영양각 · Saiga Antelope Horn (prohibited)

5.4 g
Chief 君

CITES
Yukgye Rou Gui
肉桂 육계 · Cinnamon Bark

5.4 g
Deputy 臣
Buja Fu Zi
附子 부자 · Prepared Aconite

5.4 g
Deputy 臣

toxic
Dokhwal Du Huo
獨活 독활 · Aralia

5.4 g
Deputy 臣
Baekjakyak Bai Shao
白芍藥 백작약 · White Peony

4 g
Deputy 臣
Bangpung Fang Feng
防風 방풍 · Siler

4 g
Assistant 佐
Cheongung Chuan Xiong
川芎 천궁 · Cnidium

4 g
Assistant 佐
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

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Envoy 使

three slices

Total 33.6 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 sinew impediment with the joints bound and painful
Extinguishes wind and relaxes the sinews

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Sinew impediment with contracture and pain
Liver wind binding the sinews

Biomedical correlates

Spastic contracture
Dystonia with pain

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治筋痺, 肢節束痛. 羚羊角ㆍ桂皮ㆍ附子ㆍ獨活各一錢三分半, 白芍藥ㆍ防風ㆍ川芎各一錢. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑三片, 水煎服. 《河間》

Translation

Treats sinew impediment with the joints bound and painful. Antelope horn, cassia bark, aconite and pubescent angelica, 1 don 3 fun 5 ri each; white peony, saposhnikovia and chuanxiong, 1 don each. Cut up, make one packet, add three slices of ginger and decoct in water. — Hagan Yubang 河間 (Donguibogam · Pung)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Sinew impediment — the joints bound and painful — and the formula pairs antelope horn with aconite, which is an unusual combination of a cooling liver-wind drug with a hot one. The logic is that the binding is wind and must be extinguished, while the cold that fixes it must be warmed; peony relaxes the sinew between them. For spastic contracture with pain that is not a bad reading, and peony with cassia remains the standard pair for cramping sinews. Antelope horn is prohibited and goat horn is the usual substitution. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.