Formulas · Calm the Spirit 安神 · Immun (入門)

Parting Powder

Byeolli-san

한글 별리산 · Pinyin Bie Li San

別離散

The transcription writes 天旅 for 天雄 and runs 附子肉桂 together without a separator; the formula's own subtraction clause — 去雄ㆍ附ㆍ薑ㆍ桂 — names the four by their first graphs and settles both readings. 菖蒲 here is 石菖蒲.

Composition 構成

Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

37.5 g
Chief 君
Cheonung Tian Xiong
天雄 천웅 · Tianxiong Aconite

11.25 g
Deputy 臣

PROHIBITED
Buja Fu Zi
附子 부자 · Prepared Aconite

11.25 g
Deputy 臣

PROHIBITED
Yukgye Rou Gui
肉桂 육계 · Cinnamon Bark

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

11.25 g
Deputy 臣
Inuyeop Yin Yu Ye
茵芋葉 인우엽 · Skimmia Leaf (toxic)

18.75 g
Assistant 佐

PROHIBITED
Sanggisaeng Sang Ji Sheng
桑寄生 상기생 · Mulberry Mistletoe

18.75 g
Assistant 佐
Cheonchogeun Qian Cao Gen
茜草根 천초근 · Madder Root

11.25 g
Assistant 佐
Sesin Xi Xin
細辛 세신 · Asarum

7.5 g
Envoy 使
Seokchangpo Shi Chang Pu
石菖蒲 석창포 · Acorus

7.5 g
Envoy 使

Total 146.3 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

Drives out the evil that shows itself as a figure in dream
Warms a cold, vacuous Heart so the dreaming stops

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Heart wind as illness, the man dreaming of a woman and the woman of a man (心風爲病男夢見女女夢見男)
Dreaming of a presence that returns night after night

Biomedical correlates

Recurrent vivid dreams with a felt presence
Sleep-related hallucination and parasomnia

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治心風爲病, 男夢見女, 女夢見男, 宜此去邪, 使不復見, 故云別離. 白朮一兩, 天雄ㆍ附子ㆍ肉桂ㆍ乾薑ㆍ茜根各三錢, 茵芋葉ㆍ桑寄生各五錢, 細辛ㆍ菖蒲各二錢. 右爲末, 每二錢, 空心白湯調下. 熱者, 去雄ㆍ附ㆍ薑ㆍ桂, 加知母ㆍ黃栢各三錢, 當歸ㆍ地黃各五錢. 《入門》

Translation

Treats Heart wind as illness, where the man dreams of a woman and the woman of a man. This is used to drive the evil out so that it is not seen again, and that is why it is called Parting. White atractylodes 1 nyang; tianxiong aconite, aconite, cinnamon bark, dry ginger and madder root 3 don each; skimmia leaf and mulberry mistletoe 5 don each; asarum and acorus 2 don each. Powder the above and take 2 don at a time, stirred into plain hot water on an empty stomach. Where there is heat, remove the tianxiong, the aconite, the ginger and the cinnamon, and add anemarrhena and phellodendron 3 don each, Korean angelica and rehmannia 5 don each. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Mong)

Clinical commentary 臨床

**Contains tianxiong and aconite main root, both toxic, together with skimmia leaf, which is also toxic. This must not be prepared.** The name is the method: the dream-figure is treated as an evil presence to be parted from, and the formula is a warm, acrid, wind-dispersing powder aimed at driving it off rather than at settling the Spirit. White atractylodes alone carries a third of the weight and is the only ingredient doing supplementation; everything around it is hot and moving. The subtraction for a heat pattern is the interesting part — strip out all four warm ingredients and put in anemarrhena, phellodendron, angelica and rehmannia, and what is left is a cool blood-supplying formula. In practice the heat-pattern version, built on the four substitutions and without the aconites, is the only form of this prescription that can be used at all. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.