Formulas · Stabilize & Astringe 固澀 · Seui Deukhyobang (世醫得效方)

Aged Mugwort Decoction

Jinae-tang

한글 진애탕 · Pinyin Chen Ai Tang

陳艾湯

Composition 構成

Baekbokryeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

80 g
Chief 君

powdered; 2 don a dose
Aeyeop Ai Ye
艾葉 애엽 · Mugwort Leaf

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Envoy 使

陳艾

Total 80 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Treats heart sweat — sweat issuing from the pit of the heart — and night sweating of heart and armpits

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Sweat from the centre of the chest only; night sweats of chest and armpits

Biomedical correlates

Localized chest sweating

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治汗自心頭出者, 名曰心汗. 亦治心腋盜汗. 白茯苓二兩. 右爲末, 每二錢, 以濃煎陳艾湯調下. 《得效》

Translation

Treats sweat that issues from the pit of the heart, called heart sweat; it also treats night sweating of heart and armpits. White poria 2 nyang. Powder it and take 2 don at a time stirred into a thick decoction of aged mugwort. — Seui Deukhyobang 得效 (Donguibogam · Jinaek)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Poria alone, carried in mugwort — the formula named for its vehicle. Sweat confined to the middle of the chest is 5.8's heart sweat, and the Deukhyo treats it with the one medicinal the tradition gave the heart's fluid. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.