Formulas · Stop Cough & Wheeze 止咳平喘 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)
Purple Gold Elixir
Jageum-dan
한글 자금단 · Pinyin Zi Jin Dan
A different formula from the 紫金丹 of the Jaundice chapter, which is the Bonsa's chalcanthite, beeswax and jujube pill, and from the second 紫金丹 of this chapter, registered as Jageum-dan-gae-2, which is arsenic with alum and fermented soybeans and no pork.
Composition 構成
- Damdusi淡豆豉 담두시 · Prepared Soybean40 g
Deputy 臣pounded to a pulp
- Bisang砒礵 비상 · Arsenic Trioxide4 g
Assistant 佐as 信砒, powdered · arsenic, highly toxic
- Jeoyuk猪肉 저육 · Pork160 g
Envoy 使lean pork, finely cut
Total 204 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.
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
- Treats wheezing panting with inability to lie down
- To be given only where the illness is of three years' standing or more
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Long-standing wheezing panting
- Phlegm lodged in the lung with orthopnoea
Biomedical correlates
- Chronic asthma — historical treatment
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治哮喘不得卧. 須三年後者可服. 信砒末 一錢, 淡豆豉(搗爛) 一兩, 精猪肉(細切) 四兩. 三味拌和, 分作三分, 用紙筋泥包裹, 烘令泥乾, 却用炭火煆, 靑烟出盡爲度, 放地上一宿出火毒, 取爲末, 湯浸蒸餠和丸菉豆大, 食後冷茶淸下. 大人二十丸, 小兒七丸. 忌一應鹹物ㆍ湯水之類. 《入門》
Translation
Treats wheezing panting with inability to lie down. It may be given only where the illness is of three years' standing or more. Arsenolite powder, 1 don; fermented soybeans pounded to a pulp, 1 nyang; lean pork finely cut, 4 nyang. Mix the three, divide into three portions, wrap each in clay bound with paper fibre, dry the clay over heat, then calcine it in a charcoal fire until the blue smoke has all gone off; set it on the ground for a night to let the fire toxin out, and grind it to a powder. Make pills the size of a mung bean with steamed cake soaked in hot water, and give them after food, down with cold clear tea: twenty pills for an adult, seven for a child. All salty things and soups and watery foods are to be avoided. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Haesu)