Formulas · Purge Downward 瀉下 · Jahwa (子和)

Two Immortals Powder

Iseon-san

한글 이선산 · Pinyin Er Xian San

二仙散

Given as 各等分; grams entered at 40 each as a notional equal share.

Composition 構成

Gwache Gua Di
瓜蔕 과체 · Melon Pedicel (toxic)

40 g
Chief 君

toxic
Sechacha Xi Ya Cha
細芽茶 세아차 · Fine Tea Buds

40 g
Deputy 臣

好茶, good tea; equal parts
Jejeup Ji Zhi
虀汁 제즙 · Sour Pickle Brine

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Envoy 使

虀汁, taken stirred into sour pickle brine

Total 80 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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

Ejects
as an emetic preparation

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Where an emetic is called for

Biomedical correlates

Gastric retention

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

吐劑. 瓜蔕ㆍ好茶各等分. 右爲末, 每二錢, 虀汁調下. 《子和》

Translation

An emetic preparation. Melon stalk and good tea in equal parts. Powder them and take 2 don at a dose stirred into sour pickle brine. — Jahwa 子和 (Donguibogam · To)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Zhang Congzheng's own two-medicinal emetic. Tea is bitter and cooling and was held to help the ejecting, and the pickle brine that carries it is sour — the chapter's standing vehicle, because sourness itself provokes the retch. **Contains melon stalk, which is toxic.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.