Formulas · Supplement 補益 · Manbyeong Hoechun (萬病回春)

Nine Immortals' Kingly Way Cake

Guseonwangdo-go

한글 구선왕도고 · Pinyin Jiu Xian Wang Dao Gao

九仙王道糕

Composition 構成

Yeonjayuk Lian Zi
蓮子肉 연자육 · Lotus Seed

160 g
Chief 君

4 nyang
Sanyak Shan Yao
山藥 산약 · Chinese Yam

160 g
Chief 君

4 nyang, stir-fried
Baekbongnyeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

160 g
Deputy 臣

4 nyang
Uiiin Yi Yi Ren
薏苡仁 의이인 · Coix Seed

160 g
Deputy 臣

4 nyang
Maega Mai Ya
麥芽 맥아 · Barley Sprout

80 g
Assistant 佐

2 nyang, stir-fried
Baekpyeondu Bai Bian Dou
白扁豆 백편두 · Hyacinth Bean

80 g
Assistant 佐

2 nyang, stir-fried
Geomin Qian Shi
芡仁 검인 · Euryale Seed (also called geomsil 芡實)

80 g
Assistant 佐

2 nyang
Sisang Shi Shuang
柿霜 시상 · Persimmon Frost

40 g
Assistant 佐

1 nyang
Sadang Sha Tang
砂糖 사당 · Granulated Sugar

800 g
Envoy 使

20 nyang of white sugar
Gaengmi Jing Mi
粳米 갱미 · Non-glutinous Rice

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Envoy 使

5 seung of non-glutinous rice flour

Total 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

Nourishes the spirit and props up the origin qi
Strengthens the spleen and stomach and advances food and drink
Supplements vacuity detriment, engenders flesh and removes damp heat

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Weak appetite and wasting after long illness
Spleen and stomach vacuity in convalescence

Biomedical correlates

Convalescent undernutrition — dietary supplement

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

養精神, 扶元氣, 健脾胃, 進飮食, 補虛損, 生肌肉, 除濕熱. 蓮肉ㆍ山藥(炒)ㆍ白茯苓ㆍ薏苡仁各四兩, 麥芽(炒)ㆍ白扁豆(炒)ㆍ芡仁各二兩, 柿霜一兩, 白砂糖二十兩. 右細末, 入粳米粉五升, 蒸糕, 曬乾, 任意食之, 米飮送下. 《回春》

Translation

Nourishes the spirit, props up the origin qi, strengthens the spleen and stomach, advances food and drink, supplements vacuity detriment, engenders flesh and removes damp heat. Lotus seed, dioscorea (stir-fried), white poria and coix seed, 4 nyang each; malt (stir-fried), white hyacinth bean (stir-fried) and euryale seed, 2 nyang each; persimmon frost 1 nyang; white sugar 20 nyang. Powder them finely, add 5 seung of non-glutinous rice flour, steam into a cake and sun it dry; eat at will, washed down with rice water. — Hoechun 回春 (Donguibogam · Naesang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

A food rather than a medicine, and the only thing in the chapter's long list of restoratives that a convalescent would eat by choice: twenty nyang of sugar to forty of medicinal powder, steamed into a rice cake and dried for keeping. Everything in it is a grain, a seed or a starchy root, and nothing in it is pharmacologically active in any strong sense. That is the point. 任意食之, eat at will, is unique in this chapter, which otherwise doses everything carefully. The problem being treated is not enough food, and the answer is a palatable and keepable form of it. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.