Boiled Wine

Ja-ju

한글 자주 · Pinyin Zhu Jiu

煮酒

The pinch of damp rice set on the sealed mouth is a doneness indicator rather than an ingredient, and is not entered in the ingredient list.

Composition 構成

Ju Jiu
酒 주 · Wine

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Chief 君

好淸酒, one bottle of good clear wine
Hwangnap Huang La
黃蠟 황랍 · Beeswax

8 g
Deputy 臣
Hocho Hu Jiao
胡椒 호초 · Black Pepper

4 g
Assistant 佐

ground

Total 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

Wine sealed with beeswax and pepper and cooked in a water bath, then drunk cold

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

None given; the leaf is a preparation method

Biomedical correlates

Not a therapeutic preparation

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

好淸酒一甁, 入黃蠟二錢, 胡椒(硏) 一錢, 緊封口, 置一撮濕米於其上, 重湯煮之. 其米成飯, 卽成矣, 取出放冷用. 《俗方》

Translation

One bottle of good clear wine; put in 2 don of beeswax and 1 don of ground pepper, seal the mouth tightly, set a pinch of damp rice on top of it, and cook it in a double boiler. When that rice has turned to cooked rice the preparation is done; take it out, let it cool and use it. — Sokbang 俗方 (Donguibogam · Japbang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Wine pasteurised in the bottle. The beeswax seals the surface, the pepper is an aromatic, and the water bath holds the bottle below boiling long enough to kill the organisms that would turn the wine to vinegar. The pinch of damp rice on the cap is an ingenious thermometer: when it has steamed into cooked rice, the inside of the bottle has been held hot long enough. Read plainly this is a keeping method, not a medicine. It would genuinely have extended the life of a bottle of rice wine, which is a real result and the likeliest reason it is recorded. The wine remains wine; no tonic claim attaches to it in the leaf, and none is warranted. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.