Formulas · Tonify Yin 補陰 · Onbyeongjobyeon (溫病條辨)
Increase the Fluids Decoction
Jeungaek-tang
한글 증액탕 · Pinyin Zeng Ye Tang
增液湯
Composition 構成
- Hyeonsam玄參 현삼 · Scrophularia12 g
Chief 君 - Maekmundong麥門冬 맥문동 · Liriope10 g
Deputy 臣 - Saengjihwang生地黃 생지황 · Raw Rehmannia10 g
Deputy 臣
Total 32 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.
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Actions 效能
- Generates fluids and moistens dryness
- Increases the water to float the boat
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Fluid injury after febrile disease with dry constipation
- Thirst with dry mouth and tongue
- Constipation from dryness rather than excess
Biomedical correlates
- Post-illness dry constipation
- Constipation in dehydrated or elderly patients
- Dryness syndromes with thirst
Clinical commentary 臨床
The famous strategy of increasing the water to float the stranded boat — no purgative at all, just three moisteners refilling the riverbed. The warm-disease school's most elegant contribution to bowel therapeutics. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.