Formulas · Drain Dampness 利水滲濕 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Lepidium and Jujube Powder

Jeongjo-san

한글 정조산 · Pinyin Ting Zao San

葶棗散

Composition 構成

Jeongnyeokja Ting Li Zi
葶藶子 정력자 · Pepperweed Seed

8 g
Chief 君

dry-fried to a yellow, powdered
Daejo Da Zao
大棗 대조 · Jujube

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Envoy 使

ten fruits, decocted strong and then removed

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Actions 效能

Treats water panting
or panting with a puffy face

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Water qi in the lung with panting
Panting with facial oedema

Biomedical correlates

Pulmonary oedema or pleural effusion — historical treatment

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治水喘, 或面浮. 葶藶子(炒黃爲末)ㆍ大棗十枚(濃煎去棗), 調二錢服. 《入門》

Translation

Treats water panting, or panting with a puffy face. Lepidium seed, dry-fried to a yellow and powdered; ten jujubes, decocted strong and then removed. Stir 2 don of the powder into the decoction and take. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Haesu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Two materials, and it is the short form of Jeongryeokdaejosapye-tang below: lepidium seed to drive the water out of the chest, jujube decoction to carry it and to blunt it. The pairing is one of the oldest in the literature and the reason for the jujube is explicit in Junggyeong — lepidium alone is too harsh for a patient who is already struggling to breathe. 面浮, a puffy face, with panting is oedema, and a drug that drains water out of the chest is the right idea. **Lepidium seed is a strong diuretic and purgative; in a patient with breathlessness and oedema the cause needs establishing first.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.