Formulas · Transform Phlegm 化痰 · Hwarinseo (活人書)

Pinellia and Fresh Ginger Decoction

Banhasaenggang-tang

한글 반하생강탕 · Pinyin Ban Xia Sheng Jiang Tang

半夏生薑湯

Composition 構成

Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

40 g
Chief 君

sliced
Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

20 g
Chief 君

processed · toxic in the raw state
Jugyeo Zhu Ru
竹茹 죽여 · Bamboo Shavings

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Deputy 臣

"green bamboo shavings, a wad the size of a hen's egg"

Total g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Treats hiccup at the point of death

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Unremitting hiccup with phlegm, in a patient at the point of collapse

Biomedical correlates

Intractable hiccup

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治噦欲死. 半夏(製) 五錢, 生薑(切) 一兩. 右剉, 入靑竹茹雞子大, 水煎服. 《活人》 ○一名鮮陳湯. 《醫鑑》

Translation

Treats hiccup at the point of death. Processed pinellia, 5 don; fresh ginger, 1 nyang, sliced. Cut up, add green bamboo shavings in a wad the size of a hen's egg, decoct in water and take. — Hwarin 活人 (Donguibogam · Haesu) ○ Also called Seonjin-tang. — Uigam 醫鑑

Clinical commentary 臨床

Sobanha-tang in a double dose with bamboo shavings added, and the indication is as blunt as the formula: 噦欲死, hiccup at the point of death. The chapter puts it with the yang-pattern treatments, where the stomach is hot rather than cold, which is why the shavings are there — they are the one cooling thing in it. Hiccup described as killing a patient is hiccup that has gone on until he cannot eat, drink or sleep, and 3.23 gives the chapter's prognosis for it: frequent close-spaced hiccups are treatable, one hiccup every half-hour is not. **Contains pinellia, which is toxic in the raw state and must be properly processed.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.