Formulas · Purge Downward 瀉下 · Dansim (丹心)

Search Out Wind Pill

Supung-hwan

한글 수풍환 · Pinyin Sou Feng Wan

搜風丸

Powdered and bound with a paste into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; 30–50 pills with thin rice water. **Note on modern practice: morning glory seed and rhubarb are purgatives; short courses only, and not in pregnancy.**

Composition 構成

Heukchuk Hei Chou
黑丑 흑축 · Black Morning Glory Seed

80 g
Chief 君 raw, first-ground powder
Daehwang Da Huang
大黃 대황 · Rhubarb

20 g
Deputy 臣
Binrang Bing Lang
檳榔 빈랑 · Areca Seed

20 g
Deputy 臣
Jisil Zhi Shi
枳實 지실 · Immature Bitter Orange

20 g
Assistant 佐

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

Drives leg qi swelling and pain downward through the bowel
Works through four purging and moving agents

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Leg qi with swelling and pain (治脚氣腫痛)
Damp heat in the three Yin
Swelling requiring downward drainage

Biomedical correlates

Leg swelling with constipation
Refractory leg qi
Short-course purgative therapy

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治脚氣腫痛. 黑牽牛子(生取頭末) 二兩, 大黃ㆍ檳榔ㆍ枳實各五錢. 右爲末, 糊丸梧子大, 米飮下三五十丸. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats leg qi with swelling and pain. Black morning glory seed, the raw first-ground powder, 2 nyang; rhubarb, areca nut, and unripe bitter orange, 5 don each. Powder the above and bind with a paste into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; take 30–50 pills with thin rice water. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Jok)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Four ingredients, all of them aimed downward — the chapter's damming theory applied without ornament. Black morning glory seed at four ounces leads, taken as the first-ground powder, which is the more potent fraction. Named for searching out wind, though what it actually does is open the bowel. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.