Formulas · Tonify Yang 補陽 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)
Cinnamon and Aconite Decoction
Gyebu-tang
한글 계부탕 · Pinyin Gui Fu Tang
桂附湯
Composition 構成
- Yukgye肉桂 육계 · Cinnamon Bark12 g
Chief 君 as gyepi (桂皮) - Buja附子 부자 · Prepared Aconite8 g
Deputy 臣 blast-fried - Saenggang生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger4 g
Envoy 使 3 slices - Daejo大棗 대조 · Jujube4 g
Envoy 使 2 pieces
Total 28 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.
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Actions 效能
- Warms Yang drastically to secure the exterior
- Stops unceasing vacuity sweating at its root
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Yang vacuity with weak Blood (陽虛血弱)
- Vacuity sweating that will not stop (虛汗不止)
- Cold-predominant collapse-adjacent depletion
Biomedical correlates
- Profuse spontaneous sweating in debilitated patients
- Cold intolerance with exhaustion
- Hypofunction states with clammy sweating
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治陽虛血弱, 虛汗不止. 桂皮 三錢, 附子(炮) 二錢. 右剉, 作一貼, 薑三棗二, 水煎服. 《入門》
Translation
Treats Yang vacuity with weak Blood, and vacuity sweating that will not stop. Cinnamon bark 3 don; blast-fried aconite 2 don. Cut the above, make one packet, add 3 slices of ginger and 2 jujubes, decoct in water and take. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Heoro)
Clinical commentary 臨床
The drastic end of the Deukhyo's three-mode dial in its purest form — two hot medicinals and nothing else, for the patient whose sweat is running out of a gate no gentler formula can close. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.