Formulas · Invigorate Blood 活血祛瘀 · Bangyakhappyeon (方藥合編)

Angelica Tails Powder

Danggwisu-san

한글 당귀수산 · Pinyin Dang Gui Xu San

當歸鬚散

This entry stood on the site as a clinic entry from the Bangyakhappyeon, with a composition but no Bogam leaf; the Injuries chapter carries the leaf, and it is the same prescription. The two compositions agree on all nine drugs and on every weight but one: the clinic reading gave cassia at 7 fun, and the leaf gives 桂皮 at 6 fun. The leaf's weight is printed here. The clinic reading named the drug 肉桂 and the leaf 桂皮; both resolve to the same herb entry, and the distinction is recorded in the prep. The book's attribution is kept as it stood, and this leaf is labelled 入門.

Composition 構成

Danggwi Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

6 g
Chief 君

tails (當歸尾)
Jeokjagyak Chi Shao
赤芍藥 적작약 · Red Peony

4 g
Deputy 臣
Oyak Wu Yao
烏藥 오약 · Lindera

4 g
Deputy 臣
Hyangbuja Xiang Fu
香附子 향부자 · Cyperus

4 g
Deputy 臣
Somok Su Mu
蘇木 소목 · Sappan Wood

4 g
Assistant 佐
Honghwa Hong Hua
紅花 홍화 · Safflower

3.2 g
Assistant 佐
Doin Tao Ren
桃仁 도인 · Peach Kernel

2.8 g
Assistant 佐
Yukgye Rou Gui
肉桂 육계 · Cinnamon Bark

2.4 g
Assistant 佐

cassia bark (桂皮)
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

2 g
Envoy 使

Total 32.4 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

Invigorates Blood and disperses traumatic stasis
Moves Qi and stops pain from injury
Frees pain of the chest, abdomen and flank where a blow has set Qi and Blood

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Blood stasis from trauma — falls blows sprains and contusions
Fixed pain and bruising after injury
Qi and Blood binding in the flanks after impact
Qi congealed and Blood bound after a blow, with pain of the chest, abdomen and flank

Biomedical correlates

Motor vehicle accident injuries
Sports contusions and sprains
Post-traumatic bruising and swelling

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治打撲損傷, 致氣凝血結, 胸腹脇痛. 當歸尾一錢半, 赤芍藥ㆍ烏藥ㆍ香附子ㆍ蘇木各一錢, 紅花八分, 桃仁七分, 桂皮六分, 甘草五分. 右剉作一貼, 酒水相半煎服. 《入門》

Translation

Treats injury from blows and contusions that has brought Qi to congeal and Blood to bind, with pain of the chest, abdomen and flank. Angelica sinensis tails, 1 don 5 fun; red peony, lindera, cyperus and sappanwood, 1 don each; safflower, 8 fun; peach kernel, 7 fun; cassia bark, 6 fun; licorice, 5 fun. Cut as one packet and decoct in half wine and half water, and take it. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Jesang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The trauma formula of Korean practice — the first prescription considered after any significant contusion, and a natural pairing with acupuncture in personal-injury cases. Danggui tails, not body — the tails move where the body nourishes. The Bogam leaf shows where it comes from and what it was for: 氣凝血結 after a blow, with pain in the chest, abdomen and flank. It is the mildest of the chapter's internal trauma formulas and the only one with no purgative, no leech and no mineral in it, which is why it is the one that survived into ordinary use. The prose of this chapter makes the reasoning explicit: the robust patient is purged with 通導散 and 奪命散, the depleted one is given 復元活血湯, and 當歸鬚散 is what regulates afterwards. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.