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Two Licorices Decoction

Igam-tang

한글 이감탕  ·  Pinyin Er Gan Tang

二甘湯

Composition 構成

Total 32 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Stomach heat — sweating heavily after meals

Biomedical correlates

  • Gustatory sweating

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治胃熱, 食後汗出如雨. 生甘草ㆍ灸甘草ㆍ五味子ㆍ烏梅肉 各等分. 右剉, 每五錢, 薑 二片, 棗 二枚, 水煎服. 《入門》

Translation

Treats stomach heat with sweat pouring like rain after eating. Raw licorice, mix-fried licorice, schisandra and mume flesh in equal parts. Cut up; for each 5 don, add 2 slices of ginger and 2 jujubes, decoct in water and take. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Jinaek)

Clinical commentary 臨床

食後汗出如雨 — sweat like rain after eating. Gustatory sweating, and the Immun treats it with licorice both ways and two sour things to gather — the Heart chapter's 3.11 rule that the heart, whose fluid is sweat, is held with sourness. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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