Formulas · Tonify Yin 補陰 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Anemarrhena and Poria Decoction

Jimobongnyeong-tang

한글 지모복령탕 · Pinyin Zhi Mu Fu Ling Tang

知母茯苓湯

Composition 構成

Jimo Zhi Mu
知母 지모 · Anemarrhena

4 g
Chief 君
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

2.8 g
Chief 君
Jeokbongnyeong Chi Fu Ling
赤茯苓 적복령 · Poria (red)

4 g
Deputy 臣
Hwanggeum Huang Qin
黃芩 황금 · Scutellaria

4 g
Deputy 臣
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

2.4 g
Deputy 臣
Maengmundong Mai Men Dong
麥門冬 맥문동 · Liriope

2 g
Deputy 臣
Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

2.8 g
Assistant 佐

processed · toxic in the raw state
Omija Wu Wei Zi
五味子 오미자 · Schisandra

2 g
Assistant 佐
Gwandonghwa Kuan Dong Hua
款冬花 관동화 · Coltsfoot Flower

2 g
Assistant 佐
Gilgyeong Jie Geng
桔梗 길경 · Platycodon

2 g
Assistant 佐
Siho Chai Hu
柴胡 시호 · Bupleurum

2 g
Assistant 佐
Cheongung Chuan Xiong
川芎 천궁 · Cnidium

1.6 g
Assistant 佐
Agyo E Jiao
阿膠 아교 · Donkey-hide Gelatin

1.6 g
Assistant 佐

roasted to beads
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

2.4 g
Envoy 使
Bakha Bo He
薄荷 박하 · Mint

1.2 g
Envoy 使

Total 36.8 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

Treats wilting lung with panting and cough, alternating cold and heat, and spontaneous sweating

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Wilting lung with yin vacuity, tidal fever and sweating

Biomedical correlates

Chronic suppurative lung disease with fever and sweats

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治肺痿喘嗽, 寒熱徃來, 自汗. 知母ㆍ赤茯苓ㆍ黃芩各一錢, 人參ㆍ半夏(製) 各七分, 五味子ㆍ欵冬花ㆍ桔梗ㆍ麥門冬ㆍ柴胡各五分, 白朮ㆍ甘草各六分, 川芎ㆍ阿膠珠各四分, 薄荷三分. 右剉, 作一貼, 水煎服. 《入門》

Translation

Treats wilting lung with panting and cough, cold and heat coming and going, and spontaneous sweating. Anemarrhena, red poria and scutellaria, 1 don each; ginseng and processed pinellia, 7 fun each; schisandra, coltsfoot, platycodon, ophiopogon and bupleurum, 5 fun each; white atractylodes and licorice, 6 fun each; chuanxiong and ass-hide glue roasted to beads, 4 fun each; mint, 3 fun. Cut up, make one packet, decoct in water and take. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Haesu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Fifteen drugs at small weights, and the shape of it is a Sagunja base with bupleurum and scutellaria for the alternating fever, anemarrhena and ophiopogon for the dryness, and glue and schisandra to hold what is left. 寒熱徃來 with 自汗 in a patient coughing up pus is the picture the chapter calls 肺痿, and the Immun's answer is to treat the fever and the depletion at once rather than to attack either. The chapter names this formula twice: here, and at the end of the 哮證 section as the supplementing formula to give after an arsenic pill has broken an attack. **Contains pinellia, which is toxic in the raw state and must be properly processed.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.