Formulas · Stop Cough & Wheeze 止咳平喘 · Hyangyak Jipseongbang (鄕藥集成方)

Namchil Decocted Pill

Namchiljeon-won

한글 남칠전원 · Pinyin Lan Qi Jian Yuan

藍漆煎元

藍漆, the chief drug at twice the weight of the others, is not among the registered medicinals and is left out of the ingredient list. It is a Korean domestic drug name, which is why the citation is to the Hyangyak Jipseongbang rather than to a Chinese formulary.

Composition 構成

Haengin Xing Ren
杏仁 행인 · Apricot Kernel

40 g
Chief 君
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

40 g
Deputy 臣
Hodoyuk Hu Tao Rou
胡桃肉 호도육 · Walnut Flesh

40 g
Deputy 臣
Bongmil Feng Mi
蜂蜜 봉밀 · Honey

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Envoy 使

for the pills

Total 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 phlegm cough

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Phlegm cough with dryness of the lung

Biomedical correlates

Chronic cough

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治痰嗽. 藍漆二兩, 人參ㆍ杏仁ㆍ胡桃肉各一兩. 右爲末, 蜜丸彈子大, 每一丸, 薑湯或米飮嚼下. 《鄕集》

Translation

Treats phlegm cough. Namchil, 2 nyang; ginseng, apricot kernel and walnut flesh, 1 nyang each. Grind to a powder and make honey pills the size of a bullet; one pill at a time, chewed down with ginger decoction or rice water. — Hyangyak Jipseongbang 鄕集 (Donguibogam · Haesu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

One of the few formulas in the chapter taken from a Korean source, and the only one in the phlegm-cough group whose chief drug is a Korean domestic name. The other three are the standard moistening trio for a dry chronic cough — ginseng, apricot kernel and walnut — made into a honey bolus to be chewed, which is the form the chapter keeps for coughs treated over months. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.