Formulas · Transform Phlegm 化痰 · Uirim Jipyo (醫林集要)

Gleditsia Pod Powder

Jogak-san

한글 조각산 · Pinyin Zao Jiao San

皂角散

The alternative name 蘿葍膏 is from the Deughyobang, where the preparation is a paste rather than a powder.

Composition 構成

Jogak Zao Jiao
皂角 조각 · Gleditsia Pod

4 g
Chief 君
Nabokja Lai Fu Zi
萊菔子 나복자 · Radish Seed

4 g
Deputy 臣

Total 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

Induces vomiting in sudden stroke with phlegm congestion
Opens the throat

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Wind stroke with phlegm congesting the throat
Sudden collapse with phlegm rattling

Biomedical correlates

Acute phlegm obstruction of the airway
Therapeutic emesis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治卒中痰塞. 皂角ㆍ蘿葍子等分爲末, 每二錢, 水煎盡服, 卽吐. 《醫林》 ○一名蘿葍膏. 《得效》

Translation

Treats sudden stroke with phlegm blocking. Gleditsia pod and radish seed, equal parts, powdered; 2 don each time, decocted in water and drunk off, and vomiting follows at once. Also called Nabok-go. — Uirim Jipyo 醫林 · Uibang Yuchwi 得效 (Donguibogam · Pung)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Two drugs, both of them saponin-bearing, and both of them emetic in quantity. Gleditsia pod is the tradition's standard phlegm-expelling irritant and radish seed descends qi and breaks up food stagnation; taken together as a strong decoction they empty the stomach within minutes. This is the version to reach for when the problem is audible phlegm rather than depth of coma — though in a patient who cannot protect the airway, inducing vomiting is exactly the wrong thing to do, and that is the limit of the whole 取吐 method. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.