Formulas · Tonify Qi 補氣 · Gogeum Uigam (古今醫鑑)

White Snow Cake

Baekseol-go

한글 백설고 · Pinyin Bai Xue Gao

白雪糕

Composition 構成

Sanyak Shan Yao
山藥 산약 · Chinese Yam

160 g
Chief 君
Geominja Qian Shi
芡仁 검인 · Euryale Seed (also called geomsil 芡實)

160 g
Deputy 臣

芡仁
Yeonjayuk Lian Zi
蓮子肉 연자육 · Lotus Seed

160 g
Deputy 臣

蓮肉
Satang Sha Tang
砂糖 사당 · Granulated Sugar

960 g
Envoy 使
Gaengmi Jing Mi
粳米 갱미 · Non-glutinous Rice

≈600 g
Envoy 使

粳米 1 seung, ground to flour
Nami Nuo Mi
糯米 나미 · Glutinous Rice

≈600 g
Envoy 使

糯米 1 seung, ground to flour

Total ≈2640 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Volume measures (升 seung, 合 hop, 斗 mal) are approximated at 1合≈60g and marked ≈.

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

Supplements and nourishes the spleen and stomach in internal damage

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Internal damage with the spleen and stomach depleted

Biomedical correlates

Malnutrition
Convalescent nutrition

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治內傷, 補養脾胃. 山藥ㆍ芡仁ㆍ蓮肉各四兩, 粳米ㆍ糯米各一升(幷爲粉), 砂糖屑一斤半. 右拌勻蒸糕, 任食之. 《醫鑑》

Translation

Treats internal damage and supplements and nourishes the spleen and stomach. Dioscorea, euryale seed and lotus seed 4 nyang each; non-glutinous rice and glutinous rice 1 seung each, both ground to flour; sugar 1.5 geun. Mix evenly, steam as a cake, and eat at will. — Gogeum Uigam 醫鑑 (Donguibogam · Naesang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The simplest of the three cakes — three supplements, two rice flours, sugar. No ginseng and no poria, which makes it the mildest and the cheapest. That the section offers three versions of the same idea at descending cost is worth noting. Bojin-go uses ginseng and clarified butter; Samseon-go uses ginseng; this one uses neither. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.