Formulas · Tonify Yin 補陰 · Junggyeong (仲景)

Lily Bulb and Egg Yolk Decoction

Baekhapgyeja-tang

한글 백합계자탕 · Pinyin Bai He Ji Zi Tang

百合雞子湯

Both drugs are counted by the piece, so grams are given as 0.

Composition 構成

Baekhap Bai He
百合 백합 · Lily Bulb

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Chief 君

seven bulbs, soaked overnight and the water discarded
Gyejahwang Ji Zi Huang
鷄子黃 계자황 · Egg Yolk

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Deputy 臣

one yolk, stirred in off the heat

Total 0 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 2 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Moistens the lung and restores the stomach yin
Clears heat left after vomiting

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Lily disease following emetic treatment
Stomach yin damaged by vomiting with restlessness

Biomedical correlates

Post-emetic dehydration with agitation
Convalescent anorexia after vomiting illness

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治吐後百合病. 百合七枚, 雞子黃一箇. 右先將百合水浸一宿, 當白沫出, 去其水, 更以井水二升, 煎取一盞, 去渣, 納雞子黃攪勻, 溫服. 《仲景》

Translation

Treats lily disease after vomiting. Lily bulb, seven; egg yolk, one. First soak the lily bulb in water overnight — a white froth will come out — discard that water, then decoct in two seung of well water, take one cup and strain off the dregs, stir in the egg yolk evenly, and take warm. — Junggyeong 仲景 (Donguibogam · Han, lower)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Two ingredients, and the second is food. Vomiting empties the stomach of its yin, and egg yolk is the classical restorative for exactly that — rich, moistening, and taken without cooking so that none of its substance is driven off. The instruction to stir it in after straining, off the heat, is the operative detail: heat the yolk and it sets, and a set yolk is no longer a fluid-restoring drug. The same move appears in Huanglian Ejiao Decoction, which uses yolk the same way for the same reason. Simple, and still a reasonable thing to give a convalescent who cannot face food. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.