traditional Chinese cold remedy
Archaic term for a medical powder with antipyretic and diaphoretic effects, used in traditional Chinese medicine. No longer in common use.
Medical texts from the Edo period record a cold remedy called 正気散.
Standard kanji spelling for this archaic Chinese medicine term.
Variant kanji spelling using 鍾馗 (a mythological figure); less common.
From Chinese 正氣散 / 正气散 (zhèngqì sǎn), a traditional herbal formula. The Japanese reading しょうきさん is the on'yomi of the characters.