Formulas · Transform Phlegm 化痰 · Jesaeng (濟生)

Reach the Sage Decoction

Jeoseong-tang

한글 저성탕 · Pinyin Di Sheng Tang

抵聖湯

Cut and made into one packet with 7 slices of ginger, decocted in water and taken. Note on modern practice: persistent vomiting after birth, or inability to keep fluids down, requires medical assessment.

Composition 構成

Jeokjakyak Chi Shao
赤芍藥 적작약 · Red Peony

6 g
Chief 君
Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

6 g
Chief 君
Taekran Ze Lan
澤蘭 택란 · Bugleweed

6 g
Deputy 臣
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

6 g
Deputy 臣
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

6 g
Assistant 佐
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

14 g
Envoy 使 7 slices
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

2 g
Envoy 使

Total 46 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

Settles the retching and nausea that follow a birth
Restores an appetite that has closed

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Retching counterflow and nausea after birth (産後嘔逆惡心)
Unable to eat or drink (不能飮食)
Postpartum nausea with weakness

Biomedical correlates

Postpartum nausea and vomiting
Poor appetite after childbirth
Recovery-phase digestive weakness

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治産後嘔逆惡心, 不能飮食. 赤芍藥ㆍ半夏ㆍ澤蘭葉ㆍ人參ㆍ陳皮各一錢半, 甘草五分. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑七片, 水煎服. 《濟生》

Translation

Treats retching counterflow and nausea after birth, with inability to eat or drink. Red peony, pinellia, lycopus leaf, ginseng, and tangerine peel, 1.5 don each; licorice 5 fun. Cut the above, make one packet, add 7 slices of ginger, decoct in water and take. — Jesaeng 濟生 (Donguibogam · Buin)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Five herbs at one flat dose, and the presence of lycopus is what marks it as a postpartum formula rather than a general anti-emetic — the tradition reading nausea after birth as partly a matter of blood that has not moved on. Pinellia and tangerine peel settle the stomach; ginseng supplies what the birth spent; seven slices of ginger carry it. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.