Formulas · Purge Downward 瀉下 · Bonsabang (本事方)
Rhubarb Decoction
Daehwang-tang
한글 대황탕 · Pinyin Da Huang Tang
A different formula from the 大黃湯 of the Dysentery chapter, which is rhubarb steeped in wine; the two are registered separately.
Composition 構成
- Daehwang大黃 대황 · Rhubarb40 g
Chief 君roasted dry and quenched in ginger juice until the juice is taken up
- Saenggang生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger—
Deputy 臣half a bowl of the natural juice, taken up by the quenching
- Jinchangmi陳倉米 진창미 · Aged Granary Rice—
Envoy 使a pinch, decocted with the dose
- Saengchong生葱 생총 · Fresh Scallion—
Envoy 使two stalks of the white, decocted with the dose and eaten first
Total g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 3 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.
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Actions 效能
- Treats stomach reflux with cold drool
- where cold drool flows first and the food is then vomited
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Stomach reflux with cold drool preceding the vomiting
Biomedical correlates
- Gastric outlet obstruction with hypersalivation — historical treatment
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治冷涎反胃. 其候欲發時, 先流冷涎, 次則吐食. 此乃勞證, 治不早, 死在朝夕. 大黃 一兩(剉), 生薑自然汁 半盞. 灸大黃令燥, 淬入薑汁中, 如此淬汁盡, 切焙爲末. 每二錢, 陳米 一撮ㆍ葱白 二莖ㆍ水 一盞, 煎至七分, 先食葱白, 次服藥, 不十日去根. 《本事》 ○凡膈噎大便燥結, 用大黃, 乃急則治標之法也; 仍用<a href='/formulas/samul-tang'>四物湯</a>加童便ㆍ韭汁ㆍ竹瀝, 多服爲妙. 《正傳》
Translation
Treats stomach reflux with cold drool. The sign of it is that when an attack is coming on, cold drool flows first and the food is vomited after. This is a taxation pattern, and if it is not treated early death comes within a day. Rhubarb, 1 nyang, cut up; the natural juice of fresh ginger, half a bowl. Roast the rhubarb dry and quench it in the ginger juice, and go on quenching until the juice is used up, then slice it, bake it and powder it. Give 2 don each time, decocted with a pinch of old rice, two stalks of scallion white and a cup of water down to seven tenths; have the patient eat the scallion white first and then take the medicine, and in under ten days it is rooted out. ○ In dysphagia with blockage and a dry bound stool, using rhubarb is the method of treating the branch because the case is urgent; one should still give Four Substances Decoction with a boy's urine, Chinese chive juice and bamboo sap added, and give it freely. — Bonsabang 本事 · Uihak Jeongjeon 正傳 (Donguibogam · Guto)