Formulas · Stabilize & Astringe 固澀 · Dansim (丹心)

Sage-Like Powder

Yeoseong-san

한글 여성산 · Pinyin Ru Sheng San

如聖散

All three are burnt with their nature retained — charred through but not reduced to ash — and powdered; 2 don taken on an empty stomach, stirred into a dark-plum decoction with wine. Note on modern practice: sudden heavy uterine bleeding requires prompt medical evaluation.

Composition 構成

Jongryeo Zong Lu
棕櫚 종려 · Windmill Palm Fiber

40 g
Chief 君 burnt with the nature retained
Geongang Gan Jiang
乾薑 건강 · Dried Ginger

60 g
Deputy 臣 burnt with the nature retained
Omae Wu Mei
烏梅 오매 · Mume Plum

40 g
Deputy 臣 burnt with the nature retained

Total 140 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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

Stops a flooding of blood with three ingredients burnt to char
Binds and warms at once where the flow will not hold

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Stopping blood flooding (止血崩)
Heavy uterine bleeding requiring an astringent
Flooding on a cold or depleted ground

Biomedical correlates

Acute heavy uterine bleeding — historical management
Menorrhagia
Emergency astringent therapy of the era

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

止血崩. 棕櫚ㆍ烏梅各一兩, 乾薑一兩半. 右幷燒存性爲末, 每二錢, 烏梅湯調酒下, 空心. 《丹心》

Translation

Stops blood flooding. Palm fiber and dark plum, 1 nyang each; dried ginger 1 nyang 5 don. Burn all of them with their nature retained and powder them; take 2 don each time, stirred into a dark-plum decoction with wine, on an empty stomach. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Po)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Three ingredients, all charred, and the charring is the formula. 燒存性 — burnt so that the nature is retained — is the tradition's standard method for turning a medicinal into a hemostatic, and here it is applied to all three at once: palm fiber to bind, dark plum for its sourness, dried ginger for the warmth a bleeding patient has lost. The name claims a great deal, and on the flooding shelf it sits at the opposite end from Dokhaeng-san, which moves before it stops. This one simply stops. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.