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Pork Skin Decoction

Jeobu-tang

한글 저부탕 · Pinyin Zhu Fu Tang

猪膚湯

The Immun's gloss explaining each of the three ingredients is given in the source and is kept here.

Composition 構成

Jeobu Zhu Fu
猪膚 저부 · Pork Skin

40 g
Chief 君
Bongmil Feng Mi
蜂蜜 봉밀 · Honey

60 g
Deputy 臣

one hop of white honey
Baekbun Bai Fen
白粉 백분 · Rice Flour

30 g
Assistant 佐

half a hop, parched until fragrant

Total 130 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 shaoyin disease with guest heat and a sore throat
Moistens dryness
dispels vexation and staunches diarrhoea

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Shaoyin guest heat with a sore throat
Yin vacuity with dryness and diarrhoea

Biomedical correlates

Pharyngitis in a debilitated patient
Sore throat with dehydration

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治少陰客熱咽痛. 猪膚一兩, 水一盞, 煎至五分, 入白蜜一合ㆍ白粉半合(熬香熟), 和勻服之. 《入門》 ○猪, 水畜, 其氣入腎, 是以能解少陰客熱; 白蜜以潤燥除煩; 白粉益氣斷利. 《入門》

Translation

Treats shaoyin disease with guest heat and a sore throat. Pork skin, 1 nyang, in 1 cup of water, boiled down to 5 fun; add 1 hop of white honey and half a hop of rice flour parched until fragrant and done, mix evenly and take. The pig is a water animal and its qi enters the kidney, and so it can resolve shaoyin guest heat; white honey moistens dryness and dispels vexation; rice flour boosts the qi and cuts off the diarrhoea. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Han)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Pork skin boiled to a broth with honey and parched rice flour, which is food and not medicine — and in a patient with a raw throat who cannot swallow and has been losing fluid, food is the right prescription. Boiled pork skin is gelatin, honey is a demulcent and sugar, and parched rice flour thickens: the result is a smooth, cool, calorie-bearing slip that coats the pharynx on the way down. The five-phase explanation, that the pig is a water animal whose qi enters the kidney, is decoration over a sound piece of nursing. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.