Formulas · Drain Dampness 利水滲濕 · Hwarinseo (活人書)
Virgate Wormwood and Poria Decoction
Injinbokryeong-tang
한글 인진복령탕 · Pinyin Yin Chen Fu Ling Tang
茵蔯茯苓湯
Composition 構成
- Injinho茵蔯蒿 인진호 · Capillaris12 g
Chief 君茵蔯
- Baekbokryeong白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)4 g
Deputy 臣 - Jeoryeong猪苓 저령 · Polyporus4 g
Deputy 臣 - Hwalseok滑石 활석 · Talc4 g
Assistant 佐 - Danggui當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica4 g
Assistant 佐 - Yukgye肉桂 육계 · Cinnamon Bark4 g
Assistant 佐官桂
Total 32 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.
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Actions 效能
- Frees the urine in yin jaundice
- Warms and transforms while draining
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Yin jaundice with urine not disinhibited
- vexation and agitation with thirst
Biomedical correlates
- Jaundice with oliguria
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治陰黃, 小便不利, 煩燥而渴. 茵蔯 三錢作一貼, 加茯苓ㆍ猪苓ㆍ滑石ㆍ當歸ㆍ官桂 各一錢, 煎服. 《活人》
Translation
Treats yin jaundice with urine not disinhibited, vexation and agitation with thirst. Virgate wormwood 3 don made into one packet, with poria, polyporus, talc, angelica and cinnamon bark 1 don each added; decoct and take. — Hwarinseo 活人 (Donguibogam · Hwangdal)
Clinical commentary 臨床
The first of six formulas built on the same base — virgate wormwood at three don, called Injin Ilmul-tang, the single-substance decoction — with different medicinals added. The series runs from this one, which merely drains, through to the aconite and dry ginger formulas below, and the chapter arranges them in ascending order of cold.
What distinguishes yin jaundice is set out at 5.7.1: the body and face yellow but the limbs heavy, the back cold, spontaneous sweating, free urine and a pulse tight, fine and empty. The source calls it yang turned to yin through excessive cooling — iatrogenic, in other words. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.