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Angelica Paste

Danggwi-go

한글 당귀고  ·  Pinyin Dang Gui Gao

當歸膏

Paste formula: the medicinals are simmered gently in 5 doe of water, 5 doe more added and simmered again — seven passes in all — then strained; the liquor is reduced over alternating fires, 4 nyang of cooked honey added per geun, and the whole boiled down to a paste. Two teaspoons each time on an empty stomach, mixed down in plain hot water.

Composition 構成

Total 1422.4 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • The five taxations and seven damages — all vacuities and hundred detriments
  • Depleted patients best served by sustained paste dosing
  • Long-course nourishment of the two foundations

Biomedical correlates

  • Chronic multi-system fatigue
  • Convalescent and geriatric restoration
  • Patients preferring syrup-paste to pills or decoctions

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治五勞七傷, 諸虛百損. 補養脾胃, 滋榮筋骨. 枸杞子ㆍ當歸 各五兩, 生乾地黃ㆍ白朮ㆍ白芍藥(以米粉同炒) 各四兩, 白茯苓 三兩, 薏苡仁 二兩, 山藥ㆍ麥門冬 各一兩二錢半, 地骨皮ㆍ蓮肉ㆍ人參 各一兩, 熟地黃ㆍ貝母ㆍ甘草 各七錢半, 天門冬 五錢, 五味子 二錢半, 琥珀 六分. 右用水五升入藥, 微火煎之, 再加水五升, 如此七次, 濾去滓, 文武火煎, 每斤加熟蜜四兩, 共熬成膏, 每取二茶匙, 空心, 白湯調下. 《入門》

Translation

Treats the five taxations and seven damages, all vacuities and hundred detriments; supplements and nourishes the Spleen and Stomach and enriches sinew and bone. Lycium fruit and Korean angelica, 5 nyang each; dried raw rehmannia, white atractylodes, and white peony (fried together with rice flour), 4 nyang each; white poria 3 nyang; coix seed 2 nyang; dioscorea and ophiopogon, 1 nyang 2.5 don each; lycium root bark, lotus seed, and ginseng, 1 nyang each; prepared rehmannia, fritillaria, and licorice, 7.5 don each; asparagus root 5 don; schisandra 2.5 don; amber 6 pun. Put the medicinals in 5 doe of water and simmer over a gentle fire; add 5 doe more and repeat — seven times in all; strain off the dregs, reduce over alternating gentle and fierce fire, add 4 nyang of cooked honey per geun, and boil all down into a paste. Take two teaspoons each time on an empty stomach, mixed down in plain hot water. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Heoro)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The chapter's answer to the patient who cannot face another pill count — seven waters coaxed through eighteen herbs and finished with honey and a breath of amber, tonification poured rather than swallowed. Kin to the site's Gyeongok-go tradition: medicine as preserve. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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