Formulas · Tonify Yin 補陰 · Uihak Gangmok (醫學綱目)

Clear the Spirit Sweet Dew Pill

Cheongsingamro-hwan

한글 청신감로환  ·  Pinyin Qing Shen Gan Lu Wan

淸神甘露丸

Paste-pill of three juices, amounts nominal (the six powders are equal parts): raw rehmannia juice, white lotus-root juice, and cow's milk are simmered together in a silver or stone vessel into a paste; the six powdered medicinals are bound with it into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; 50–70 pills with a ginseng decoction.

Composition 構成

Total 240 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 the great bones withered and great flesh sunken (大骨枯 大肉陷)
  • Advanced wasting with residual heat
  • The gravest tissue-loss presentations of the chapter

Biomedical correlates

  • Advanced cachexia and sarcopenia presentations
  • Severe wasting with low-grade heat
  • Nutritive-restorative therapy in the gravely depleted

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治虛勞不足, 大骨枯, 大肉陷, 皆治之. 生地黃汁ㆍ白蓮藕汁ㆍ牛乳汁. 右三味, 銀石器內熬成膏. 入人參ㆍ白朮ㆍ黃芪ㆍ黃連ㆍ五味子ㆍ胡黃連 各等分. 右爲末, 和前膏作丸梧子大. 每五七十丸, 人參湯下. 《綱目》

Translation

Treats the insufficiency of vacuity taxation — the great bones withered, the great flesh sunken: it treats all of it. Raw rehmannia juice, white lotus-root juice, and cow's milk: simmer these three in a silver or stone vessel into a paste. Add ginseng, white atractylodes, astragalus, coptis, schisandra, and picrorhiza in equal parts, powdered, and bind with the paste into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds. Take 50–70 pills each time with a ginseng decoction. — Gangmok 綱目 (Donguibogam · Heoro)

Clinical commentary 臨床

For the body the six extremes described — bones withered, flesh caved — the Gangmok prescribes three liquids that are nearly food and six herbs that guard the refeeding: the ginseng trio to rebuild, the two coptis to keep the last heat from eating what returns. A refeeding protocol with a fire watch. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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