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Gecko Pill

Hapgae-hwan

한글 합개환  ·  Pinyin Ge Jie Wan

蛤蚧丸

Composition 構成

Total 120 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 2 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Blood accumulated in the lung with pain and loss of voice; voice lost after long coughing

Biomedical correlates

  • Chronic laryngitis
  • Bronchiectasis with haemoptysis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治肺間積血作痛失音, 及久嗽失音. 蛤蚧 一對(醋灸), 訶子肉ㆍ阿膠珠ㆍ生地黃ㆍ麥門冬ㆍ細辛ㆍ甘草 各五錢. 右爲末, 蜜丸如棗大, 每一丸含化. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats blood accumulated between the lungs causing pain with loss of voice, and loss of voice from long coughing. Gecko one pair (vinegar mix-fried); chebula flesh, ass-hide glue beads, fresh rehmannia, ophiopogon, asarum and licorice 5 don each. Powder them, make honey pills the size of a jujube, and let one melt in the mouth at a time. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Seongeum)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Gecko is the tradition's medicinal for a lung that has given out, taken as a pair because the pair is what is sold — the tail is held to carry the strength. Chebula to hold the voice in, glue and rehmannia for the blood, and the pill melted in the mouth as at 3.4.11. **Gecko (蛤蚧) is from a species subject to wildlife-trade controls in some jurisdictions.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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