Formulas · Drain Dampness 利水滲濕 · Haejang (海藏)

Poria and Licorice Decoction

Bongnyeonggamcho-tang

한글 복령감초탕 · Pinyin Fu Ling Gan Cao Tang

茯苓甘草湯

The Bogam gives this formula only inside the small-character gloss of the Cough chapter's table of visceral and bowel coughs; there is no leaf for it, and the composition here is that gloss.

Composition 構成

Baekbongnyeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

8 g
Chief 君
Gyeji Gui Zhi
桂枝 계지 · Cinnamon Twig

8 g
Deputy 臣
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

4 g
Envoy 使
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

—
Envoy 使

added to the decoction

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 the bladder cough
where the patient coughs and loses urine

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Bladder cough with incontinence of urine

Biomedical correlates

Cough with stress incontinence

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

膀胱咳宜茯苓甘草湯. 茯苓ㆍ桂枝各二錢, 甘草一錢, 入薑煎. 《海藏》

Translation

For the bladder cough, Poria and Licorice Decoction is appropriate. Poria and cinnamon twig, 2 don each; licorice, 1 don; decocted with ginger. — Haejang 海藏 (Donguibogam · Haesu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Three drugs, and it is the Junggyeong formula of the same name: poria and cinnamon twig to move the water downward, licorice to hold the middle. The indication the Cough chapter gives it — coughing and losing urine — makes it the counterpart of the large intestine's Jeokseokjiuyeoryang-tang for coughing and losing stool, and both belong to Haejang's table rather than to the chapter's own practice. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.