Formulas · Tonify Qi & Blood 氣血雙補 · Buin Daejeon Yangbang (婦人大全良方)

Angelica and Mutton Decoction

Danggwiyangyuk-tang

한글 당귀양육탕 · Pinyin Dang Gui Yang Rou Tang

當歸羊肉湯

Composition 構成

Yangyuk Yang Rou
羊肉 양육 · Mutton

160 g
Chief 君

fat mutton
Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

50 g
Chief 君
Hwanggi Huang Qi
黃芪 황기 · Astragalus

50 g
Chief 君
Cheongung Chuan Xiong
川芎 천궁 · Cnidium

50 g
Deputy 臣
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

60 g
Envoy 使

Total 370 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Treats the taxation of the lying-in month

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Childbed taxation — exhaustion in the weeks after delivery

Biomedical correlates

Postpartum debility

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治蓐勞. 肥羊肉四兩, 當歸ㆍ川芎ㆍ黃芪各一兩二錢半, 生薑一兩半. 右剉, 水九盞煎至三盞, 分三服. 《良方》一方, 無羊肉, 有人參. 《入門》

Translation

Treats childbed taxation. Fat mutton 4 nyang; angelica, chuanxiong and astragalus 1 nyang 2 don 5 pun each; fresh ginger 1 nyang 5 don. Cut up, reduce in 9 cups of water to 3 cups, and divide into three doses. Another version has no mutton and has ginseng instead. — Buin Daejeon Yangbang 良方 (Donguibogam · Buin)

Clinical commentary 臨床

蓐勞, childbed taxation, is the exhaustion of the weeks after delivery, and the chapter's answer is food — four nyang of fat mutton against four medicinals. Zhongjing's Danggwisaenggangyangyuk-tang stands behind it, and the variant that swaps mutton for ginseng shows how the two were understood: both supply what has been spent, one as food and one as medicine. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.