Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Mangye (回春)
Bamboo Leaf Decoction
Jukyeop-tang
한글 죽엽탕 · Pinyin Zhu Ye Tang
竹葉湯
Cut and made into one packet with seven green bamboo leaves, decocted in water and taken twice daily.
Composition 構成
- Baekbokryeong白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)8 g
Chief 君 - Maekmundong麥門冬 맥문동 · Liriope6 g
Deputy 臣 - Hwanggeum黃芩 황금 · Scutellaria6 g
Deputy 臣 - Bangpung防風 방풍 · Siler4 g
Assistant 佐 - Jukyeop竹葉 죽엽 · Bamboo Leaf2 g
Envoy 使 7 green leaves
Total 26 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.
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Actions 效能
- Quiets the vexed and oppressed heart of pregnancy
- Cools the minister fire that the middle months raise
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Child vexation — heart vexed agitated and oppressed in pregnancy (子煩)
- Vexation arising in the fourth and fifth months
- Summer heat aggravating a pregnant patient
Biomedical correlates
- Anxiety and restlessness in pregnancy
- Heat intolerance in pregnancy
- Sleep disturbance with agitation in pregnancy
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
白茯苓 二錢, 麥門冬ㆍ黃芩 各一錢半, 防風 一錢. 右剉, 作一貼, 入靑竹葉七片, 水煎服, 日二. 《回春》
Translation
White poria 2 don; ophiopogon and scutellaria, 1.5 don each; saposhnikovia 1 don. Cut the above, make one packet, add seven green bamboo leaves, decoct in water and take, twice daily. — Hoechun 回春 (Donguibogam · Buin)
Clinical commentary 臨床
Child vexation gets the gentlest cooling in the chapter — poria leading, ophiopogon replacing what the heat spends, and seven bamboo leaves floating on top. The indication names its own season: the fourth and fifth months, when the minister fire is at work, or any pregnancy meeting a hot summer. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.