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

Avalokitesvara Powder

Gwaneum-san

한글 관음산  ·  Pinyin Guan Yin San

觀音散

The leaf writes 薑 二 and 棗 一 without a counting word; the corpus's usual 薑三片ㆍ棗二枚 form is not used here and is left as printed.

Composition 構成

Total g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 3 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Spleen vacuity with chronic diarrhoea in an infant
  • Cold limbs and clouded spirit on the way to chronic fright wind

Biomedical correlates

  • Chronic diarrhoea with dehydration and failure to thrive in an infant

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治脾困多瀉, 不思乳食, 精神昏困, 四肢冷, 欲成慢驚. 人參 一錢, 蓮肉ㆍ神麴 各二分, 白茯苓 一分半, 白朮ㆍ黃芪ㆍ木香ㆍ白扁豆ㆍ甘草 各一分. 右剉, 入薑 二, 棗 一, 藿香 三葉, 同煎服. 《入門》

Translation

Treats a spleen worn out with much diarrhoea, no wish for milk or food, a clouded and exhausted spirit, cold limbs, and chronic fright about to set in. Ginseng 1 don; lotus seed and medicated leaven 2 fun each; white poria 1 fun 5 ri; white atractylodes, astragalus, costus, hyacinth bean and licorice 1 fun each. Cut up, add 2 of ginger, 1 jujube and 3 leaves of agastache, decoct together and take. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Soa)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Four of the 四君子湯 drugs at the core — ginseng, white atractylodes, white poria, licorice — with astragalus, lotus seed and hyacinth bean to hold the stool, and costus, agastache and medicated leaven to move and digest. The total weight is about 9 grams of crude drug, almost all of it ginseng; this is a small, mild decoction, and for once nothing in it is dangerous. 欲成慢驚 — chronic fright about to set in. The leaf is describing the child in the hours before the convulsion, and it names the whole causal chain correctly: the diarrhoea first, then the refusal to feed, then the cold limbs and the clouding. What it cannot do is replace the water and salt that have gone out in the stool, which is the thing that actually decides whether this child convulses. That reading is set out in full at sinhyo-san-soa. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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