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Angelica and Hollyhock Decoction

Gyugyu-tang

한글 귀규탕  ·  Pinyin Gui Kui Tang

歸葵湯

Composition 構成

Total 30.4 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Yin fire in the eye with photophobia

Biomedical correlates

  • Photophobia with chronic inflammation

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治視物昏花, 流淚隱澁, 目中溜火, 惡日與火光. 升麻 一錢, 黃芪ㆍ酒芩ㆍ防風ㆍ羌活 各七分, 蔓荊子ㆍ連翹ㆍ生地黃ㆍ當歸ㆍ人參ㆍ紅葵花ㆍ生甘草 各五分, 柴胡 三分. 右剉作一貼, 水煎, 食後溫服. 《入門》

Translation

Treats dim flowering vision with running tears and a hidden roughness, fire streaming in the eye, and an aversion to sunlight and firelight. Cimicifuga 1 don; astragalus, wine-processed scutellaria, saposhnikovia and notopterygium 7 pun each; vitex, forsythia, raw rehmannia, Korean angelica, ginseng, red hollyhock flower and raw licorice 5 pun each; bupleurum 3 pun. Cut up as one packet, decoct in water, and take warm after food. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · An)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Named for its two least expected drugs — angelica and the red hollyhock flower, the only use of hollyhock in the chapter. Cimicifuga and astragalus at the head make it a lifting formula, which is the Dongwon school's answer to photophobia: the trouble is a yin fire risen into the eye because the clear yang could not. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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