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Preserve the True Decoction

Bojin-tang

한글 보진탕  ·  Pinyin Bao Zhen Tang

保眞湯

Decocted with 3 slices of ginger and 2 jujubes. The Sipyak Sinseo appends a modification table: for fright palpitations add hostwood poria, polygala, and sour jujube seed; for turbid urine add polyporus, alisma, and fish-poison yam; for rough urination add akebia, pyrrosia, and knotgrass; for seminal loss add oyster shell and lotus seed; for dryness-heat add talcum, gypsum, sweet wormwood, and turtle shell; for night sweats add light wheat, oyster shell, and ephedra root.

Composition 構成

Total 48 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 steaming bone tidal heat and night sweats (骨蒸潮熱盜汗)
  • The consumption-adjacent depletion of Ge Kejiu's regimen
  • Complications each answered by recorded additions

Biomedical correlates

  • Chronic fever and night sweats in wasting illness
  • Historical consumption regimens
  • Complicated depletion presentations

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治虛勞骨蒸, 潮熱盜汗. 當歸ㆍ生乾地黃ㆍ白朮ㆍ人參ㆍ黃芪(蜜炒) 各一錢, 赤芍藥ㆍ甘草(灸) 各八分半, 蓮心ㆍ赤茯苓ㆍ白茯苓 各六分, 天門冬ㆍ麥門冬ㆍ陳皮ㆍ白芍藥ㆍ知母(炒)ㆍ黃柏(炒)ㆍ五味子ㆍ柴胡ㆍ地骨皮ㆍ熟地黃 各三分半. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑三棗二, 水煎服. ○驚悸, 加茯神ㆍ遠志ㆍ酸棗仁. ○尿濁, 加猪苓ㆍ澤瀉ㆍ萆薢. ○尿澁, 加木通ㆍ石葦ㆍ萹蓄. ○遺精, 加牡蠣ㆍ蓮子. ○燥熱, 加滑石ㆍ石膏ㆍ靑蒿ㆍ鱉甲. ○盜汗, 加浮麥ㆍ牡蠣ㆍ麻黃根. 《新書》

Translation

Treats vacuity taxation with steaming bone, tidal heat, and night sweats. Korean angelica, dried raw rehmannia, white atractylodes, ginseng, and honey-fried astragalus, 1 don each; red peony and roasted licorice, 0.85 don each; lotus plumule, red poria, and white poria, 0.6 don each; asparagus root, ophiopogon, tangerine peel, white peony, dry-fried anemarrhena, dry-fried phellodendron, schisandra, bupleurum, lycium root bark, and prepared rehmannia, 0.35 don each. Cut the above, make one packet, add 3 slices of ginger and 2 jujubes, decoct in water and take. — For fright palpitations, add hostwood poria, polygala, and sour jujube seed. For turbid urine, add polyporus, alisma, and fish-poison yam. For rough urination, add akebia, pyrrosia, and knotgrass. For seminal loss, add oyster shell and lotus seed. For dryness-heat, add talcum, gypsum, sweet wormwood, and turtle shell. For night sweats, add light wheat, oyster shell, and ephedra root. — Sinseo 新書 (Donguibogam · Heoro)

Clinical commentary 臨床

First of Ge Kejiu's ten sacred medicines for consumption — a Qi-Blood-Yin chassis with twenty parts, then a printed decision tree bolting on answers for six complications. The fourteenth-century consumption ward's protocol sheet, preserved verbatim. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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