Formulas · Regulate Qi 理氣 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)
Pepper and Mung Bean Powder
Chodu-san
한글 초두산 · Pinyin Jiao Dou San
Composition 構成
- Hocho胡椒 호초 · Black Pepper—
Chief 君forty-nine grains
- Nokdu菉豆 녹두 · Mung Bean—
Deputy 臣forty-nine grains
Total g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 2 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.
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Actions 效能
- Treats vexing thirst after sudden turmoil with vomiting and diarrhoea
- where the patient cannot take medicine or cannot get water or medicine past the lips
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Thirst after sudden turmoil with intolerance of all fluids
Biomedical correlates
- Intractable vomiting in the recovery phase of gastroenteritis
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治霍亂吐瀉後, 煩渴不能服藥, 或水藥不入口者. 胡椒ㆍ菉豆 各四十九粒. 右硏爲末, 新汲水調下, 或水煎服. 《入門》 ○一名胡椒湯. 胡椒 七粒ㆍ菉豆 二十一粒, 爲末, <a href='/formulas/mogwa-tang'>木瓜湯</a>調下. 《直指》
Translation
Treats vexing thirst after sudden turmoil with vomiting and diarrhoea, where the patient cannot take medicine, or where neither water nor medicine will go past the lips. Black pepper and mung bean, forty-nine grains each. Grind to a powder and give stirred into newly drawn water, or decoct in water and take. Also called Hocho-tang: seven grains of black pepper and twenty-one of mung bean, powdered and given stirred into Quince Decoction. — Uihak Immun 入門 · Jikji 直指 (Donguibogam · Gwallan)