Formulas · Tonify Qi 補氣 · Sipyak Sinseo (十藥神書)
Ginseng Alone Decoction
Doksam-tang
한글 독삼탕 · Pinyin Du Shen Tang
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
- Rescues the Qi alone when everything else has been spent
- Anchors the convalescence after taxation blood-loss
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)