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Chrysanthemum Wine

Gukhwa-ju

한글 국화주 · Pinyin Ju Hua Jiu

菊花酒

Composition 構成

Gamguk Ju Hua
甘菊 감국 · Chrysanthemum

3000 g
Chief 君

甘菊花五升, 5 seung, approx: true
Saengjihwang Sheng Di Huang
生地黃 생지황 · Raw Rehmannia

3000 g
Deputy 臣

生地黃五升, 5 seung, approx: true
Jigolpi Di Gu Pi
地骨皮 지골피 · Lycium Root Bark

3000 g
Deputy 臣

枸杞根皮五升, 5 seung of lycium root bark, approx: true
Nami Nuo Mi
糯米 나미 · Glutinous Rice

30000 g
Assistant 佐

糯米五斗, 5 mal of glutinous rice, steamed through, approx: true
Guk Qu
麴 국 · Brewing Leaven (wine starter)

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Envoy 使

細麴, fine yeast

Total 39000 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

Received this formula from your practitioner? Amounts shown here are classical reference values — granule and prepared products differ. Always follow your prescribed dosage and directions.

Actions 效能

Strengthens the sinews and bones and supplements the marrow
Extends the years

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Taken over a long time for longevity
Weak sinews and bones in the ageing

Biomedical correlates

Traditional longevity wine
Recorded as a historical preparation

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

菊花酒方, 甘菊花ㆍ生地黃ㆍ枸杞根皮各五升, 水一石, 煮取汁五斗, 糯米五斗炊熟, 入細麴和勻, 入瓮候熟, 澄淸溫服. 壯筋骨, 補髓, 延年益壽. 白菊花尤佳. 《入門》

Translation

The chrysanthemum wine: chrysanthemum flower, raw rehmannia and lycium root bark, 5 seung each, boiled in 1 seok of water down to 5 mal of liquid; 5 mal of glutinous rice steamed through, fine yeast added and mixed evenly, put into a jar and left to ripen, then settled clear and taken warm. It strengthens the sinews and bones, supplements the marrow and extends the years. The white chrysanthemum is better still. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Sinhyeong)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Three drugs decocted down and brewed into the rice rather than pressed raw, which is what distinguishes this wine from the acorus one beside it. The three are the standard cool-and-enrich trio for the ageing body — chrysanthemum for the head, rehmannia for the blood, lycium root bark for steaming bone — and 白菊花尤佳, the white chrysanthemum is better still, is the chapter grading its own materials, as it does again for the arborvitae and the lycium. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.