Formulas · Tonify Qi 補氣 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Ginseng Alone Decoction

Daninsam-tang

한글 단인삼탕 · Pinyin Dan Ren Shen Tang

單人參湯

Composition 構成

Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

40 g
Chief 君

cut up

Total 40 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Treats qi vacuity with urgent panting

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Qi vacuity panting, short of breath and unable to carry the breath through
Long panting with no repletion sign

Biomedical correlates

Dyspnoea of exhaustion
Chronic respiratory insufficiency

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治氣虛喘急. 人參一兩(剉), 水煎, 頻服之. 《入門》 ○一人傷寒咳嗽, 喉中聲如齁, 與<a href='/formulas/doksam-tang'>獨參湯</a>一服, 鼾聲除; 服至二斤乃愈. 《綱目》

Translation

Treats qi vacuity with urgent panting. Ginseng, 1 nyang, cut up, decocted in water and taken frequently. ○ A man with cold damage had a cough and a sound in his throat like snoring; one dose of Ginseng Alone Decoction removed the snoring sound, and he was cured after taking two geun of it. — Uihak Immun 入門 · Uihak Gangmok 綱目 (Donguibogam · Haesu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

One drug, a nyang at a time, sipped continuously, and the case note records two geun of ginseng going into a single patient — something over a kilogram. That is the point of the entry as much as the formula: the chapter is saying that for 久喘, long-standing panting with no repletion in it, there is nothing to attack and the only thing to do is supplement, in quantity and for a long time. 喉中聲如齁 — a sound in the throat like snoring — is stertorous breathing, and it is the sign that distinguishes the exhausted patient from the obstructed one. The chapter's own formula section for 久喘 names this one first. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.