Formulas · Tonify Qi & Blood 氣血雙補 · Manbyeong Hoechun (萬病回春)

Ginseng Nutritive Decoction

Insamyangyeong-tang

한글 인삼양영탕  ·  Pinyin Ren Shen Yang Rong Tang

人參養榮湯

When the vacuity is severe, it may be made into honey pills and taken regularly.

Composition 構成

Total 55 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Vacuity taxation become detriment (虛勞成損) — Qi and Blood insufficiency
  • Emaciation and fatigue with shortness of breath and reduced eating
  • Alternating cold and heat with spontaneous sweating

Biomedical correlates

  • Chronic fatigue with weight loss and poor appetite
  • Convalescence after major illness or surgery
  • Anemia with palpitations and low stamina

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治虛勞成損, 氣血不足, 消瘦倦怠, 氣短食少, 或寒熱自汗. 白芍藥(酒炒) 二錢, 當歸ㆍ人參ㆍ白朮ㆍ黃芪(蜜炒)ㆍ肉桂ㆍ陳皮ㆍ甘草(灸) 各一錢, 熟地黃ㆍ五味子ㆍ防風 各七分半, 遠志 五分. 右剉, 作一貼, 薑三棗二, 水煎服. ○虛甚則蜜丸, 常服亦可. 《回春》

Translation

Treats vacuity taxation become detriment, with Qi and Blood insufficient: emaciation and fatigue, shortness of breath and reduced eating, or alternating cold and heat with spontaneous sweating. Wine-fried white peony 2 don; Korean angelica, ginseng, white atractylodes, honey-fried astragalus, cinnamon bark, tangerine peel, and roasted licorice, 1 don each; prepared rehmannia, schisandra, and saposhnikovia, 0.75 don each; polygala 0.5 don. Cut the above, make one packet, add 3 slices of ginger and 2 jujubes, decoct in water and take. When vacuity is severe, honey pills may be made and taken regularly. — Hoechun 回春 (Donguibogam · Heoro)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The nutritive counterpart to Sipjeondaebo-tang — peony leads instead of ginseng, schisandra and polygala are written in for the scattered spirit, and the whole formula bends toward the patient whose depletion shows first in flesh and sleep rather than in cold. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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