Formulas · Tonify Qi 補氣 · Sipyak Sinseo (十藥神書)

Ginseng Alone Decoction

Doksam-tang

한글 독삼탕  ·  Pinyin Du Shen Tang

獨參湯

Decocted thick in long-flowing water (長流水). In Ge Kejiu's sequence it follows Hwaryeseok-san: once the static blood has been transformed to yellow water, this decoction alone restores what remains.

Composition 構成

Total 90 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Weak emaciation with faint scant Qi after taxation blood-spitting (吐血後 羸弱氣微)
  • Post-hemorrhagic collapse-adjacent depletion
  • The closing rescue of Ge Kejiu's ten

Biomedical correlates

  • Post-hemoptysis exhaustion
  • Convalescence after major blood loss
  • Acute-on-chronic depletion states

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治虛勞吐血後, 羸弱氣微少. 大人參 二兩(去蘆). 右剉, 作一貼, 入棗五枚, 以長流水濃煎服. 《新書》

Translation

Treats weak emaciation with faint and scant Qi after blood-spitting in vacuity taxation. Large ginseng 2 nyang, crown removed. Cut, make one packet, add 5 jujubes, and decoct thick in long-flowing water. — Sinseo 新書 (Donguibogam · Heoro)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The last word of the ten sacred medicines is one herb — after the stanching powders and the duck and the paired pills, when the bleeding has stopped and almost nothing of the patient is left, two ounces of ginseng in running water. The regimen ends where the chapter began: with Qi, alone, holding. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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