Formulas · Tonify Yin 補陰 · Gogeum Uigam (古今醫鑑)
Dark Frost and Snow Pear Paste
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한글 현상설리고 · Pinyin Xuan Shuang Xue Li Gao
Composition 構成
- I梨 이 · Pear—
Chief 君cored and peeled, for 20 cups of juice
- Saengjihwang生地黃 생지황 · Raw Rehmannia—
Chief 君10 cups of the juice
- Ujeol藕節 우절 · Lotus Root Node—
Deputy 臣生藕汁, 10 cups of fresh lotus root juice
- Maekmundong麥門冬 맥문동 · Liriope—
Deputy 臣decocted for 5 cups of liquor
- Baekmogeun白茅根 백모근 · Woolly Grass Root—
Deputy 臣白茅根汁, 10 cups of the juice
- Sisang柿霜 시상 · Persimmon Frost320 g
Assistant 佐 - Nabok蘿蔔 나복 · Radish—
Assistant 佐生蘿葍汁, 5 cups of fresh radish juice
- Bongmil蜂蜜 봉밀 · Honey640 g
Envoy 使煉蜜, 1 geun of boiled honey
- Idang飴糖 이당 · Malt Syrup320 g
Envoy 使飴糖, 8 nyang of malt sugar
- Saenggang生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger—
Envoy 使half a wine cup of the juice
Total 1280 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 7 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.
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Actions 效能
- Treats cough with spitting
- hawking and vomiting of blood
- Removes fire stirred by taxation of the heart
- Treats the long taxation cough
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Cough with spitting
- hawking and vomiting of blood; taxation of the heart stirring fire; taxation cough long unhealed
Biomedical correlates
- Chronic haemoptysis
- Tuberculosis
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治咳嗽唾咯吐血, 除勞心動火, 勞嗽久不愈. 雪梨 六十箇<span class='sochu'>去心皮, 取汁二十鍾, 酸者不用</span>, 生藕汁 十鍾, 生地黃汁 十鍾, 麥門冬(煎取汁) 五鍾, 生蘿葍汁 五鍾, 白茅根汁 十鍾. 右汁合和, 重濾去渣, 火上煎煉, 入煉蜜 一斤, 飴糖 八兩, 柿霜 八兩, 薑汁 半酒盞, 火上再熬, 如稀糊則成膏矣. 每服三五匙, 日三服, 不拘時. 《醫鑑》
Translation
Treats cough with spitting, hawking and vomiting of blood, removes fire stirred by taxation of the heart, and treats the taxation cough long unhealed. Snow pears sixty <span class='sochu'>cored and peeled, for 20 cups of juice; sour ones not used</span>; fresh lotus root juice 10 cups; fresh rehmannia juice 10 cups; ophiopogon decocted for 5 cups of liquor; fresh radish juice 5 cups; imperata root juice 10 cups. Combine the juices, strain twice to remove the dregs, and reduce over the fire; add 1 geun of boiled honey, 8 nyang of malt sugar, 8 nyang of persimmon frost and half a wine cup of ginger juice, and reduce again over the fire until it is like thin paste, and the paste is done. Take three to five spoonfuls, three times a day, at any hour. — Gogeum Uigam 醫鑑 (Donguibogam · Hyeol)