Formulas · Tonify Qi & Blood 氣血雙補 · Bonchō (本草)

Pig's Trotter Gruel

Jeoje-juk

한글 저제죽 · Pinyin Zhu Ti Zhou

猪蹄粥

Four pig's trotters, cleaned and dressed as for eating, are boiled in two mal of water down to one mal and the trotters removed; the three cut herbs are added and boiled down to six doe and strained; scallion white, fermented soybean, and millet are then put in and cooked into a thin gruel, which is eaten. The trotters themselves are the base of the preparation and are not listed as a medicinal here.

Composition 構成

Songmi Su Mi
粟米 속미 · Foxtail Millet

100 g
Chief 君 millet, for the gruel
Togwageun Tu Gua Gen
土瓜根 토과근 · Snake Gourd Root

120 g
Deputy 臣
Tongcho Tong Cao
通草 통초 · Tetrapanax Pith

120 g
Deputy 臣
Nuro Lou Lu
漏蘆 누로 · Rhaponticum Root

120 g
Deputy 臣
Chongbaek Cong Bai
葱白 총백 · Scallion White

20 g
Envoy 使
Dusi Dou Chi
豆豉 두시 · Fermented Soybean

20 g
Envoy 使

Total 500 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

Brings in milk where there is none
Feeds and frees at once as a food rather than a medicine

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

No milk coming in (治乳無汁)
Insufficient lactation from depletion
Postpartum nourishment

Biomedical correlates

Insufficient milk supply
Postpartum nutritional support
Lactation support

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治乳無汁. 猪蹄四隻, 治如食法. 右水二斗, 煮取一斗, 去蹄, 入土瓜根ㆍ通草ㆍ漏蘆各三兩剉, 煮取六升, 去滓, 入葱豉及小米, 煮作稀粥, 食之. 《本草》

Translation

Treats there being no milk. Four pig's trotters, cleaned and dressed as for eating. Boil them in two mal of water down to one mal and remove the trotters; add snake gourd root, akebia, and rhaponticum, 3 nyang each, cut; boil down to six doe and strain; then add scallion white, fermented soybean, and millet, cook into a thin gruel, and eat it. — Bonchō 本草 (Donguibogam · Buin)

Clinical commentary 臨床

A food, not a draught — and the chapter is explicit about when to use it. It distinguishes two reasons milk does not come: blocked, where the Qi and Blood are exuberant, or dry, where they are weak. Nuro-san is for the blocked kind; this is for the dry. Pig's trotters boiled down to a broth carry three unblocking herbs, and the whole finishes as a millet gruel a new mother can actually eat. The reasoning is one modern lactation support would recognize — a mother who is not eating enough will not make milk, and the medicine has to arrive as food. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.