Seonbokhwa
Inula Flower · Inulae Flos
한글 선복화 · Pinyin Xuan Fu Hua
旋覆花
Properties 性味
- Taste & nature
- Bitter, acrid, salty · slightly warm
- Channels entered
- Lung, Stomach
- Actions
- Directs Qi downward and transforms phlegm — the flower that descends, stops belching and vomiting
- Typical dose
- 3–9 g, decocted in cloth bag
Appears in 13 formulas 處方
- Inula and Hematite Decoction旋覆花代赭石湯 6 g · Chief 君
- Pinellia and Poria Decoction半夏茯苓湯 2.8 g · Assistant 佐
- Pinellia Warm the Lung Decoction半夏溫肺湯 4 g · Deputy 臣
- Five Rheums Decoction五飮湯 2.8 g · Chief 君
- Open the Bind Bitter Orange Fruit Pill開結枳實丸 40 g · Deputy 臣
- Inula Decoction旋覆花湯 4 g · Chief 君
- Lung Wind Pill肺風丸 80 g · Deputy 臣
- Nourish the Blood and Dispel Wind Decoction養血祛風湯 2 g · Assistant 佐
- Chuanxiong Powder for Head Wind芎藭散 2 g · Assistant 佐
- Four Spirits Powder四神散 8 g · Deputy 臣
- Typhonium Pill白附子丸 40 g · Deputy 臣
- One Character Light Gold Powder一字輕金散 20 g · Assistant 佐
- Supreme Clarity Typhonium Pill上淸白附子丸 40 g · Assistant 佐