White Blossom Spring Wine

Baekhwachun

한글 백화춘 · Pinyin Bai Hua Chun

白花春

白蟻, literally white ants, is the brewer's name for the floating head of yeast foam, not an ingredient.

Composition 構成

Nami Nuo Mi
糯米 나미 · Glutinous Rice

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Chief 君

1 mal (一斗), washed a hundred times, steeped three days, then steamed through
Guk Qu
麴 국 · Brewing Leaven (wine starter)

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Deputy 臣

白麴, white leaven

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

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

A household wine brewed from glutinous rice, drunk as a wine

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

None given; the leaf is a brewing method

Biomedical correlates

Not a therapeutic preparation

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

糯米一斗(百度洗浄), 浸一盆水中, 過三日, 蒸熟, 以所浸水澆之, 入白麴, 如常法釀之. 過三日, 卽成美醞, 白蟻浮上最佳. 《俗方》

Translation

Glutinous rice 1 mal, washed a hundred times, steeped in a basin of water. After three days steam it through, douse it with the water it was steeped in, add white leaven, and ferment it in the usual way. After three more days it becomes a good wine; it is at its best when the white froth floats up on top. — Sokbang 俗方 (Donguibogam · Japbang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

A plain rice wine, and the only instruction that matters is to keep the steeping water and pour it back over the steamed rice — it carries the lactic bacteria that acidify the mash and keep spoilage organisms down, which is why a hundred washings and a long soak do not sterilise the grain so much as select for the right flora. The sign of readiness is the floating white head, the visible yeast bloom. There is no drug in it. Registered here because the Bogam prints it as a leaf of its own, not because it treats anything; the alcohol is the whole of its action. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.