Perilla Drink (Women's chapter)

Jaso-eum

한글 자소음 · Pinyin Zi Su Yin

紫蘇飮

Cut and made into one packet with one dark plum, decocted together and taken. **Note on modern practice: fever in pregnancy requires prompt medical evaluation — malaria and other febrile illnesses in pregnancy carry serious risk to both mother and fetus and require modern diagnosis and treatment.** This entry is recorded as classical text.

Composition 構成

Seokgo Shi Gao
石膏 석고 · Gypsum

8 g
Chief 君
Saengjihwang Sheng Di Huang
生地黃 생지황 · Raw Rehmannia

6 g
Deputy 臣
Hwanggeum Huang Qin
黃芩 황금 · Scutellaria

4 g
Deputy 臣
Maekmundong Mai Men Dong
麥門冬 맥문동 · Liriope

4 g
Deputy 臣
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

4 g
Assistant 佐
Jimo Zhi Mu
知母 지모 · Anemarrhena

4 g
Assistant 佐
Galgeun Ge Gen
葛根 갈근 · Kudzu Root

4 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

2 g
Envoy 使
Omae Wu Mei
烏梅 오매 · Mume Plum

2 g
Envoy 使 1 piece

Total 38 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

Cools a heat malaria met in pregnancy
Quenches a thirst that drinking will not satisfy

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Heat malaria in pregnancy with thirst and drinking without measure (姙娠熱瘧渴飮無度)
High fever with unquenchable thirst in gestation
Heat patterns with fluid loss in pregnancy

Biomedical correlates

Febrile illness in pregnancy — historical management
High fever with dehydration
Heat illness in gestation

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治姙娠熱瘧, 渴飮無度. 石膏二錢, 生地黃一錢半, 黃芩ㆍ麥門冬ㆍ人參ㆍ知母ㆍ乾葛各一錢, 甘草五分. 右剉, 作一貼, 入烏梅一箇, 同煎服. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats heat malaria in pregnancy, with thirst and drinking without measure. Gypsum 2 don; raw rehmannia 1.5 don; scutellaria, ophiopogon, ginseng, anemarrhena, and kudzu root, 1 don each; licorice 5 fun. Cut the above, make one packet, add one dark plum, decoct together and take. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Buin)

Clinical commentary 臨床

White Tiger's architecture adapted for a pregnant patient — gypsum and anemarrhena taking down the heat, but with ginseng, ophiopogon, and raw rehmannia holding the fluids that a high fever spends, and scutellaria in as the fetus-quieting cooler. The dark plum at the end is for the thirst: sour to gather what the heat is driving out. Despite the name, no perilla appears in the formula as recorded. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.