Formulas · Regulate Qi 理氣 · Gogeum Uigam (古今醫鑑)
Settle the Life Elixir
Jeongsaeng-dan
한글 정생단 · Pinyin Ding Sheng Dan
Composition 構成
- Unghwang雄黃 웅황 · Realgar12 g
Chief 君arsenic sulfide · toxic
- Jusa朱砂 주사 · Cinnabar (toxic)12 g
Chief 君mercuric sulfide · toxic
- Yuhyang乳香 유향 · Frankincense12 g
Deputy 臣 - Banha半夏 반하 · Pinellia12 g
Deputy 臣toxic in the raw state; must be properly processed
- Mokhyang木香 목향 · Costus Root12 g
Deputy 臣 - Yukdugu肉豆蔻 육두구 · Nutmeg12 g
Assistant 佐 - Baekchosang百草霜 백초상 · Stove Soot12 g
Assistant 佐also used as the pill coating
- Chimhyang沈香 침향 · Agarwood4 g
Assistant 佐 - Awi阿魏 아위 · Asafoetida2 g
Assistant 佐 - Nosa硇砂 노사 · Sal Ammoniac (toxic)2 g
Assistant 佐sal ammoniac · caustic; written 䃃砂 in the text
- Nokdu菉豆 녹두 · Mung Bean—
Assistant 佐forty grains
- Omae烏梅 오매 · Mume Plum—
Envoy 使forty fruits, scalded and stoned, the flesh used to bind the pills
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
- Treats stomach reflux
- and settles whether the patient will live or die
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Stomach reflux with food vomited back
Biomedical correlates
- Gastric outlet obstruction — historical treatment and prognostic test
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治反胃, 定生死. 雄黃ㆍ朱砂ㆍ乳香ㆍ半夏ㆍ木香ㆍ肉豆蔲ㆍ百草霜<span class='sochu'>爲衣</span> 各三錢, 沉香 一錢, 阿魏ㆍ䃃砂 各五分, 菉豆 四十粒, 烏梅 四十箇(湯泡去核). 右爲末, 以烏梅肉和擣作丸彈子大, 百草霜爲衣, 陰乾. 每一丸噙化嚥下, 以薑湯漱口, 復以陳麥餠火燒熟, 細嚼壓下. 噙藥卽燃官香一炷; 如香盡藥未化者難治, 藥先化香未盡者可愈. 《醫鑑》
Translation
Treats stomach reflux, and settles whether the patient will live or die. Realgar, cinnabar, frankincense, pinellia, saussurea, nutmeg and pot-bottom soot<span class='sochu'>used as the coating</span>, 3 don each; aquilaria, 1 don; asafoetida and sal ammoniac, 5 fun each; mung bean, forty grains; smoked plum, forty fruits, scalded and stoned. Powder them, bind with the smoked plum flesh and pound into pills the size of a bullet, coat them with pot-bottom soot and dry them in the shade. Hold one pill in the mouth each time until it melts and swallow it, rinse the mouth with ginger decoction, then burn an old wheat cake, chew it fine and send the medicine down with it. As soon as the pill is put in the mouth, light a stick of official incense: if the incense burns out before the pill has melted the case is hard to treat, and if the pill melts before the incense is spent the patient may be cured. — Gogeum Uigam 醫鑑 (Donguibogam · Guto)