Formulas · Tonify Qi 補氣 · Manbyeong Hoechun (萬病回春)
Eight Immortals Cake
Palseon-go
한글 팔선고 · Pinyin Ba Xian Gao
Composition 構成
- Baekchul白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes160 g
Chief 君earth stir-fried
- Sanyak山藥 산약 · Chinese Yam160 g
Chief 君 - Insam人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng40 g
Chief 君 - Sansa山楂 산사 · Hawthorn120 g
Deputy 臣flesh only
- Baekbokryeong白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)80 g
Deputy 臣 - Yeonjayuk蓮子肉 연자육 · Lotus Seed80 g
Deputy 臣 - Jisil枳實 지실 · Immature Bitter Orange160 g
Assistant 佐bran stir-fried
- Jinpi陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel80 g
Assistant 佐stir-fried
- Gaengmi粳米 갱미 · Non-glutinous Rice—
Envoy 使five seung
- Nami糯米 나미 · Glutinous Rice—
Envoy 使one and a half seung
- Bongmil蜂蜜 봉밀 · Honey—
Envoy 使three geun
Total 880 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 3 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.
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Actions 效能
- Treats spleen and stomach vacuity damage with an unceasing diarrhoea
- Benefits the old and children above all
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Spleen vacuity with chronic loose stool
- Failure to thrive with diarrhoea
Biomedical correlates
- Chronic diarrhoea in children and the elderly
- Malnutrition
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治脾胃虛損, 泄瀉不止, 最益老人ㆍ小兒. 枳實(麩炒)ㆍ白朮(土炒)ㆍ山藥 各四兩, 山査肉 三兩, 白茯苓ㆍ陳皮(炒)ㆍ蓮肉 各二兩, 人參 一兩. 右爲末, 粳米 五升, 糯米 一升半, 打粉, 蜜 三斤, 入藥末和勻, 入甑蒸熟, 焙乾, 取食之, 以湯漱口送下. 《回春》
Translation
Treats vacuity damage of the spleen and stomach with an unceasing diarrhoea; it benefits the old and children above all. Bran-stir-fried bitter orange, earth-stir-fried white atractylodes and dioscorea, 4 nyang each; crataegus flesh, 3 nyang; white poria, stir-fried tangerine peel and lotus seed, 2 nyang each; ginseng, 1 nyang. Powder; mill 5 seung of polished rice and 1.5 seung of glutinous rice to flour, add 3 geun of honey and the drug powder, mix evenly, steam in a rice steamer until done, dry over the fire, and eat it, rinsing the mouth with hot water to swallow it down. — Manbyeong Hoechun 回春 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)