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Clarified Butter Decoction

Jeho-tang

한글 제호탕 · Pinyin Ti Hu Tang

醍醐湯

醍醐 properly means clarified butter and is used here for the smooth richness of the finished paste, not as an ingredient. The preparation keeps in a sealed porcelain jar and is made up by the spoonful as wanted.

Composition 構成

Omae Wu Mei
烏梅 오매 · Mume Plum

640 g
Chief 君

powdered separately
Chogwa Cao Guo
草果 초과 · Tsaoko Fruit

40 g
Deputy 臣
Sain Sha Ren
砂仁 사인 · Amomum

20 g
Assistant 佐
Baekdanhyang Bai Tan Xiang
白檀香 백단향 · Sandalwood

20 g
Assistant 佐
Bongmil Feng Mi
蜂蜜 봉밀 · Honey

3200 g
Envoy 使

refined

Total 3920 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

Resolves summerheat and stops vexing thirst
Kept as a honey paste and stirred into cold water

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Summerheat with thirst
Summerheat with the stomach disharmonious

Biomedical correlates

Heat exhaustion with thirst
Summer anorexia

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

解暑熱ㆍ止煩渴. 烏梅肉(另末) 一斤, 草果一兩, 縮砂ㆍ白檀香各五錢, 煉蜜五斤. 右細末, 入蜜微沸攪勻, 磁器盛, 冷水調服. 《局方》

Translation

Resolves summerheat and stops vexing thirst. Mume flesh, powdered separately, 1 geun; tsaoko, 1 nyang; amomum and sandalwood, 5 don each; refined honey, 5 geun. Make a fine powder, add it to the honey brought to a slight boil and stir evenly, store in a porcelain vessel, and take stirred into cold water. — Gukbang 局方 (Donguibogam · Seo)

Clinical commentary 臨床

A summer cordial rather than a medicine, and the best-loved preparation in the chapter: a pound of mume flesh and five pounds of honey with three aromatics, boiled to a paste and stored, then stirred into cold water a spoonful at a time. In Korea it became a seasonal drink presented at court at the start of summer and is still made. Pharmacologically it is sugar, organic acids and aromatic oils in cold water — which is to say a palatable rehydration drink with appetite stimulants in it, and for the loss of appetite and thirst of a hot season that is close to the right prescription. The three aromatics, tsaoko, amomum and sandalwood, are there for a stomach that has gone off food in the heat. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.