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

Precious Chips of Drunkard's Village

Chwihyangboseol

한글 취향보설 · Pinyin Zui Xiang Bao Xie

醉鄕寶屑

Powder method: 1 don stirred into warm wine — even one who cannot drink at all, taking this, becomes able to drink.

Composition 構成

Mogwa Mu Gua
木瓜 모과 · Chinese Quince

160 g
Chief 君
Galgeun Ge Gen
葛根 갈근 · Kudzu Root

20 g
Deputy 臣
Baekdugu Bai Dou Kou
白豆蔻 백두구 · Round Cardamom

20 g
Deputy 臣
Sain Sha Ren
砂仁 사인 · Amomum

20 g
Deputy 臣
Cheongyeom Qing Yan
靑鹽 청염 · Blue Rock Salt

40 g
Assistant 佐 dry-fried
Jeonghyang Ding Xiang
丁香 정향 · Clove

20 g
Assistant 佐
Baekyakjeon Bai Yao Jian
百藥煎 백약전 · Fermented Gallnut

10 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

10 g
Envoy 使

Total 300 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

Received this formula from your practitioner? Amounts shown here are classical reference values — granule and prepared products differ. Always follow your prescribed dosage and directions.

Actions 效能

Fortifies tolerance so that drinking does not intoxicate
Guards the stomach with fruit acids and tannins before the wine arrives

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Social necessity of drinking beyond one's capacity (令飮酒不醉)
Weak drinkers facing obligatory cups
Pre-drinking protective dosing

Biomedical correlates

Alcohol tolerance support (historical)
Pre-drinking gastric protection
Social-drinking preparations of the era

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

令飮酒不醉. 葛根ㆍ白豆蔲ㆍ縮砂ㆍ丁香各五錢, 百藥煎ㆍ甘草各二錢半, 木瓜四兩, 鹽(炒) 一兩. 右爲末, 雖不能飮酒者, 溫酒調服一錢, 卽能飮. 《入門》

Translation

Makes drinking not intoxicate. Kudzu root, white cardamom, amomum, and clove, 5 don each; fermented gallnut and licorice, 2.5 don each; quince 4 nyang; dry-fried salt 1 nyang. Powder the above — even one who cannot drink wine, taking 1 don stirred into warm wine, at once becomes able to drink. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Naesang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The chapter at its most sociologically honest — a prescription for the banquet, not the disease, its name a poet's word for the drunkard's homeland. Quince and fermented gallnut line the stomach, salt and spice steady it, and the impossible promise ('even a non-drinker becomes able') tells you exactly how heavy the social obligation to drink once weighed. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.