Formulas · Purge Downward 瀉下 · Uihak Jeongjeon (醫學正傳)

Cut Off Malaria Seven Treasures Drink

Jeolhakchilbo-eum

한글 절학칠보음 · Pinyin Jie Nue Qi Bao Yin

截瘧七寶飮

Composition 構成

Sangsan Chang Shan
常山 상산 · Dichroa Root (toxic)

4 g
Chief 君

常山, dichroa root — emetic and toxic
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

4 g
Deputy 臣
Cheongpi Qing Pi
靑皮 청피 · Green Tangerine Peel

4 g
Deputy 臣
Billang Bing Lang
檳榔 빈랑 · Areca Seed

4 g
Deputy 臣
Chogwa Cao Guo
草果 초과 · Tsaoko Fruit

4 g
Assistant 佐
Hubak Hou Po
厚朴 후박 · Magnolia Bark

4 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

4 g
Envoy 使
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

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Envoy 使

薑五, five slices
Omae Wu Mei
烏梅 오매 · Mume Plum

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Envoy 使

梅二, two mume plums

Total g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 2 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Cuts off the malaria with seven drugs and makes the patient vomit
Dries the damp of the middle while driving the water down

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Malaria to be cut off after several paroxysms
Malaria with food accumulation and a greasy coating
Malaria where vomiting is wanted for the cure

Biomedical correlates

Malaria — historical antimalarial therapy
Relapsing fever treated by induced emesis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

常山ㆍ陳皮ㆍ靑皮ㆍ檳榔ㆍ草果ㆍ厚朴ㆍ甘草各一錢. 右剉, 作一貼, 酒水相半, 入薑五ㆍ梅二, 同煎, 露一宿. 早晨溫服, 必須吐而愈. 《正傳》 ○一名七寶湯. 《易簡》

Translation

Dichroa root, aged tangerine peel, green tangerine peel, areca seed, tsaoko fruit, magnolia bark and licorice, 1 don each. Cut them up, make one packet, half wine and half water, add five slices of ginger and two mume plums, decoct them together, and leave it out overnight in the dew. Take it warm in the early morning; it must bring vomiting for the cure. ○ Another name for it is Chilbo-tang 七寶湯. — Jeongjeon 正傳 (Donguibogam · Haehak)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Seven drugs, and the seven treasures of the name are simply those seven. Pyeongwi-san supplies four of them — aged tangerine peel, magnolia bark, licorice and, in place of atractylodes, green tangerine peel — and dichroa root, tsaoko fruit and areca seed make it a 截瘧 prescription. It is the best known of the Bogam's malaria-cutting drinks and the one the chapter names first at 截瘧法 alongside Buri-eum. The preparation carries as much weight as the drugs: half wine and half water, left out all night in the dew, taken warm at dawn on the day the paroxysm is due. 露 here is a method, not an ingredient — the overnight cooling was held to temper the dichroa and fit the medicine to the moment the cold and heat are about to turn. **Contains dichroa root, which is emetic and hepatotoxic, and the formula is dosed deliberately to vomiting. This must not be prepared. Malaria requires modern antimalarial treatment.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.