Formulas · Reduce Food Stagnation 消食 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Formula for Craving Tea Leaves

Ilbang

한글 일방(차엽) · Pinyin Yi Fang

一方

Given in the source as 一方, an unnamed alternative formula; entered here under a descriptive identifier taken from its indication.

Composition 構成

Changchul Cang Zhu
蒼朮 창출 · Black Atractylodes

120 g
Chief 君
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

120 g
Chief 君
Seokgo Shi Gao
石膏 석고 · Gypsum

40 g
Deputy 臣
Baekjakyak Bai Shao
白芍藥 백작약 · White Peony

40 g
Deputy 臣
Hwanggeum Huang Qin
黃芩 황금 · Scutellaria

40 g
Deputy 臣
Namseong Tian Nan Xing
天南星 천남성 · Arisaema

40 g
Assistant 佐

南星
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

40 g
Assistant 佐
Bakha Bo He
薄荷 박하 · Mint

28 g
Assistant 佐

Total 468 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Treats jaundice with a craving for tea leaves

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Jaundice with a liking for eating tea leaves

Biomedical correlates

Pica with iron-deficiency anaemia

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治黃疸, 愛喫茶葉. 蒼朮ㆍ白朮各三兩, 石膏ㆍ白芍藥ㆍ黃芩ㆍ南星ㆍ陳皮各一兩, 薄荷七錢. 右爲末, 砂糖水煮神麴作糊, 和丸梧子大. 砂糖水, 空心, 呑下五七十丸. 《入門》

Translation

Treats jaundice with a liking for eating tea leaves. Atractylodes lancea and white atractylodes 3 nyang each; gypsum, white peony, scutellaria, arisaema and tangerine peel 1 nyang each; mint 7 don. Powder them, boil medicated leaven in sugar water to make a paste, and form pills the size of a firmiana seed. Take fifty to seventy on an empty stomach with sugar water. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Hwangdal)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Unlike the Four Treasures Elixir, this does not include the craved substance. It treats the spleen instead — two atractylodes at three nyang each — with gypsum and mint for the heat that drives a craving for something cold and bitter. Sugar water is used both as the binder and as the vehicle, which is the one sweet element in a chapter otherwise full of bitters. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.