Formulas · Harmonize 和解 · Cheongeumbang (千金方)
Warm the Spleen Decoction
Onbi-tang
한글 온비탕 · Pinyin Wen Pi Tang
溫脾湯
Composition 構成
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 coughing when full of food
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Cough provoked by a full stomach
Biomedical correlates
- Postprandial cough
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治食飽則咳. 甘草 四兩, 大棗 二十枚. 右剉, 水五升, 煮至二升, 分三服. 《千金》
Translation
Treats coughing when full of food. Licorice, 4 nyang; jujube, twenty fruits. Cut up, boil in five seung of water down to two seung, and divide into three doses. — Cheongeumbang 千金 (Donguibogam · Haesu)
Clinical commentary 臨床
Two drugs, both sweet, in a very large dose: four nyang of licorice is more than the chapter gives of anything, and the whole formula is sweetness and water. The indication is narrow and exact — coughing only when the stomach is full — and the Cheongeumbang's answer is to do nothing to the lung at all. **Licorice in this quantity, taken repeatedly, causes pseudohyperaldosteronism — potassium loss, oedema and hypertension — and is not to be used at this dose.** Short courses of licorice are one thing; four nyang a day is another, and the modern limit is a fraction of it. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.