Formulas · Warm the Interior 溫裏 · Hyangyak Jipseongbang (鄕藥集成方)

Malt Sugar and Ginger Pill

Igang-won

한글 이강원 · Pinyin Yi Jiang Yuan

飴薑元

黑糖, black sugar, is not among the registered medicinals and is entered here as 砂糖 with the text's own word kept in the preparation note. The source 鄕集 is the Hyangyak Jipseongbang, and this is the one formula in the group taken from a Korean book rather than a Chinese one.

Composition 構成

Sadang Sha Tang
砂糖 사당 · Granulated Sugar

640 g
Chief 君

black sugar (黑糖), 1 geun, melted first
Geongang Gan Jiang
乾薑 건강 · Dried Ginger

160 g
Chief 君

ground to a fine powder

Total 800 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

Received this formula from your practitioner? Amounts shown here are classical reference values — granule and prepared products differ. Always follow your prescribed dosage and directions.

Actions 效能

Treats cold cough

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Cold cough with thin clear sputum

Biomedical correlates

Chronic cough provoked by cold

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治冷嗽. 黑糖一斤, 乾薑(細末) 四兩. 右先熔糖, 次下薑末, 和勻, 待凝作片, 常常嚼下. 《鄕集》

Translation

Treats cold cough. Black sugar, 1 geun; dried ginger ground to a fine powder, 4 nyang. Melt the sugar first, then put in the ginger powder, mix it evenly, and when it sets cut it into slices to be chewed and swallowed at frequent intervals. — Hyangjip 鄕集 (Donguibogam · Haesu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Sugar melted, ginger powder stirred in, the whole poured out to set and cut into slices to be chewed through the day: it is a ginger toffee, and it is the most practical thing in the cold cough section. Four nyang of dried ginger in a geun and a half of candy comes out at a reasonable dose per piece, and the form means the drug reaches the throat slowly and repeatedly rather than all at once. Ginger candy for a cold-weather cough is still sold in Korea in very nearly this form, and the chapter's taking it from a domestic formulary rather than a Chinese one is a mark of what it was: a household remedy written down. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.