Formulas · Warm the Interior 溫裏 · Junggyeong (仲景)

Peony and Licorice Decoction for Aversion to Cold after Sweating

Jagyak-gamcho-tang

한글 작약감초탕 · Pinyin Shao Yao Gan Cao Tang

芍藥甘草湯

Registered with the chapter suffix to distinguish it from the two-drug 芍藥甘草湯 registered on this site. The chapter's 懊憹怫鬱 section cites this same formula for agitation with cramping legs, cross-referenced as 方見上.

Composition 構成

Gyeji Gui Zhi
桂枝 계지 · Cinnamon Twig

8 g
Chief 君
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

6 g
Chief 君

honey-roasted
Buja Fu Zi
附子 부자 · Prepared Aconite

4 g
Chief 君

blast-fried · toxic
Baekjagyak Bai Shao
白芍藥 백작약 · White Peony

4 g
Deputy 臣
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

4 g
Deputy 臣

Total 26 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 aversion to cold after sweating
Treats agitation with cramping of the legs

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Defence yang vacuity after sweating with aversion to cold
Fluid loss with cramping legs

Biomedical correlates

Chills after fluid loss
Heat cramps

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治汗後惡寒. 桂枝二錢, 甘草(灸) 一錢半, 芍藥ㆍ白朮ㆍ附子(炮) 各一錢. 右剉, 作一貼, 水煎服. 《仲景》 ○治煩躁ㆍ脚攣急《方見上》.

Translation

Treats aversion to cold after sweating. Cinnamon twig, 2 don; honey-roasted licorice, 1 don 5 fun; peony, atractylodes and blast-fried aconite, 1 don each. Cut up, make one packet and decoct in water. Treats agitation with cramping of the legs. — Junggyeong 仲景 (Donguibogam · Han)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Not the famous two-drug formula but a five-drug one that keeps its name, and the Bogam enters it for two indications a page apart: aversion to cold after sweating, and agitation with cramping legs. Those are the same patient — someone sweated until his volume and salt are gone, who is now shivering and cramping — and treating it with cinnamon twig, aconite and atractylodes to secure the surface, with peony and licorice for the cramp, is a coherent answer. The two-drug version remains the better formula for cramp alone. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.