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Ginseng Moisten the Lung Pill

Insamyunpye-hwan

한글 인삼윤폐환 · Pinyin Ren Shen Run Fei Wan

人參潤肺丸

Composition 構成

Jimo Zhi Mu
知母 지모 · Anemarrhena

120 g
Chief 君
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

80 g
Chief 君
Gilgyeong Jie Geng
桔梗 길경 · Platycodon

100 g
Deputy 臣
Gwandonghwa Kuan Dong Hua
款冬花 관동화 · Coltsfoot Flower

80 g
Deputy 臣
Haengin Xing Ren
杏仁 행인 · Apricot Kernel

80 g
Deputy 臣
Yukgye Rou Gui
肉桂 육계 · Cinnamon Bark

100 g
Assistant 佐

the bark (桂皮)
Sesin Xi Xin
細辛 세신 · Asarum

80 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

80 g
Envoy 使
Bongmil Feng Mi
蜂蜜 봉밀 · Honey

—
Envoy 使

as the pill binder

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Actions 效能

Treats lung vacuity with cough and panting that has lasted and become taxation

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Lung vacuity cough passing into taxation
Dryness of the lung with panting

Biomedical correlates

Chronic cough with wasting

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治肺虛咳喘, 日久成勞. 知母三兩, 桔梗ㆍ桂皮各二兩半, 人參ㆍ欵冬花ㆍ杏仁ㆍ細辛ㆍ甘草各二兩. 右爲末, 蜜丸芡實大, 每一丸細嚼, 薑湯下. 《入門》

Translation

Treats lung vacuity with cough and panting which, lasting long, has become taxation. Anemarrhena, 3 nyang; platycodon and cinnamon bark, 2 nyang 5 don each; ginseng, coltsfoot flower, apricot kernel, asarum and licorice, 2 nyang each. Grind to a powder, make honey pills the size of a gorgon-nut, and let the patient chew one fine and take it down with ginger decoction. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Haesu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

A chewed pill for a long illness, with anemarrhena leading — the cold drug — and cinnamon bark and asarum beside it, which is the chapter's habitual hedge: cool the lung but keep the formula warm enough that a wasted patient can take it for months. 日久成勞 — lasting long and becoming taxation — is the progression the Bogam watches for in any chronic cough, and 虛勞 is where it is treated once it has arrived. **Contains asarum, which carries aristolochic acid in the aerial parts and is nephrotoxic; it is restricted in many countries, and the dose here is large.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.