Formulas · Reduce Food Stagnation 消食 · Yeokro (易老)
Hundred Cups Pill
Baekbae-hwan
한글 백배환 · Pinyin Bai Bei Wan
Pill formula, bulk amounts: powdered and worked with honey, each nyang divided into five pills, coated with cinnabar; chewed finely and sent down with a ginger decoction. Taken before one intends to drink, it prevents intoxication. Note on modern practice: the cinnabar (朱砂) coating is restricted in contemporary U.S. practice and omitted from modern preparation.
Composition 構成
- Saenggang生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger640 g
Chief 君 salted, dried (鹽淹焙) - Gyulhong橘紅 귤홍 · Red Tangerine Peel120 g
Deputy 臣 - Geongang乾薑 건강 · Dried Ginger120 g
Deputy 臣 - Bongchul莪朮 봉출 · Zedoary8 g
Assistant 佐 blast-fried - Samneung三稜 삼릉 · Sparganium8 g
Assistant 佐 blast-fried - Mokhyang木香 목향 · Costus Root4 g
Assistant 佐 - Hoehyang茴香 회향 · Fennel Fruit4 g
Assistant 佐 dry-fried - Jeonghyang丁香 정향 · Clove4 g
Assistant 佐 50 pieces - Sain砂仁 사인 · Amomum3 g
Assistant 佐 30 grains - Baekdugu白豆蔻 백두구 · Round Cardamom3 g
Assistant 佐 30 grains - Ikjiin益智仁 익지인 · Alpinia2 g
Assistant 佐 20 grains - Gamcho甘草 감초 · Licorice8 g
Envoy 使 roasted
Total 924 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
- Disperses the wine lodged in chest and diaphragm before it becomes an aggregation
- Warms and breaks with a pound of salted ginger at the helm
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Wine halted in the chest and diaphragm with darkened sallow face (酒停胸膈 面色黃黑)
- The forming wine-aggregation with daily wasting (將成癖疾 日漸羸瘦)
- Protective pre-drinking dosing for the habitual drinker
Biomedical correlates
- Chronic alcohol-related dyspepsia and wasting
- Early alcohol-related organ strain presentations
- Historical pre-drinking prophylaxis
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治酒停胸膈, 面色黃黑, 將成癖疾, 日漸羸瘦. 如欲飮者, 先服此則不醉. 生薑 一斤(去皮切片, 鹽二兩淹一宿焙乾), 橘紅ㆍ乾薑 各三兩, 蓬朮(炮)ㆍ三稜(炮)ㆍ甘草(灸) 各二錢, 木香ㆍ茴香(炒) 各一錢, 丁香 五十枚, 縮砂ㆍ白豆蔲 各三十粒, 益智仁 二十粒. 右爲末, 蜜和每一兩作五丸, 朱砂爲衣, 細嚼薑湯下. 《易老》
Translation
Treats wine halted in the chest and diaphragm, the face turned sallow-dark, an aggregation illness about to form, and daily gradual wasting. One who intends to drink, taking this first, does not become drunk. Fresh ginger 1 geun (peeled, sliced, cured overnight in 2 nyang of salt, and baked dry); red tangerine peel and dried ginger, 3 nyang each; blast-fried curcuma, blast-fried sparganium, and roasted licorice, 2 don each; aucklandia and dry-fried fennel, 1 don each; clove 50 pieces; amomum and white cardamom, 30 grains each; alpinia 20 grains. Powder the above, work with honey, divide each nyang into five pills, and coat with cinnabar; chew finely and send down with a ginger decoction. — Yeokro 易老 (Donguibogam · Naesang)