Formulas · Tonify Qi & Blood 氣血雙補 · Sipyak Sinseo (十藥神書)

White Phoenix Paste

Baekbong-go

한글 백봉고  ·  Pinyin Bai Feng Gao

白鳳膏

Food-ritual formula in two acts. First: the duck is bound, its neck opened, and the dripping blood stirred into warmed aged wine measured to the patient's capacity and drunk — 'it enters the lung channel directly, moistening and supplementing that lung.' Then: the duck is plucked and drawn, a pitted jujube is packed with Samryeong-pyeongwi-san powder (about 1 doe of the powder in all) and the dates fill the duck's belly, which is bound with hemp, set in an earthen crock ringed with slow coals, and braised in one bottle of aged cooking wine added dry in three pourings. The duck is then eaten; the dates are shade-dried and eaten at will, sent down with a ginseng decoction — after which Bosu-dan is taken.

Composition 構成

Total 2700 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Vacuity taxation with cough of blood and Lung wilting (嗽血肺痿)
  • Advanced consumption needing maximal nutritive therapy
  • The ceremonial centerpiece of Ge Kejiu's regimen

Biomedical correlates

  • Hemoptysis in wasting illness (historical regimen)
  • Advanced consumption care
  • Intensive nutritive-restorative therapy

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治虛勞嗽血肺痿. 黑觜白鴨 一隻, 大棗(肥者) 三升, 參苓平胃散 一升, 陳煮酒 一甁. 右將鴨縛定, 量患人飮酒多少, 隨量以酒湯溫, 將鴨項割開滴血, 入酒攪勻飮之, 直入肺經, 潤補其肺. 却將鴨乾去毛, 於脇邊開一孔, 取去腸雜拭乾, 次將棗子去核, 每箇中納參苓平胃散, 塡入鴨腹中, 用麻扎定, 以砂缸一箇置鴨在內, 四圍用火慢煨, 將陳酒煮乾, 作三次添入, 煮乾爲度, 然後食之. 其棗子陰乾, 隨意食之, 用參湯送下, 後服補髓丹. 《新書》

Translation

Treats vacuity taxation with cough of blood and Lung wilting. One black-billed white duck; plump jujubes 3 doe; Samryeong-pyeongwi-san 1 doe; aged cooking wine 1 bottle. Bind the duck; gauge how much wine the patient can drink and warm that measure; open the duck's neck and drip the blood into the wine, stir evenly, and drink — it enters the lung channel directly, moistening and supplementing that lung. Then pluck the duck dry, open a hole at its side, remove and wipe away the entrails; pit the jujubes and pack each with the Samryeong-pyeongwi powder, fill them into the duck's belly, bind with hemp, set the duck in an earthen crock, ring it with slow coals, and braise with the aged wine boiled dry, added in three pourings, until dry. Then eat it. The dates are shade-dried and eaten at will, sent down with a ginseng decoction, after which Bosu-dan is taken. — Sinseo 新書 (Donguibogam · Heoro)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The most theatrical prescription in the chapter and among the most humane — fresh blood for the lung that is losing blood, then a duck slow-braised full of medicated dates, eaten over days like a course of treats. For a dying consumptive, Ge Kejiu prescribed occasion: medicine staged as a feast, hope dosed alongside the herbs. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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