Grape Wine

Podo-ju

한글 포도주 · Pinyin Pu Tao Jiu

蒲萄酒

The grape itself, 葡萄, has no entry among the registered medicinals — only 葡萄根, the root, which is a different drug — so the chief material is named here and left out of the ingredient list rather than resolved to the root. The leaf writes the head 蒲萄 and the body 葡萄, both printed as the transcription has them.

Composition 構成

Nami Nuo Mi
糯米 나미 · Glutinous Rice

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Deputy 臣

糯米飯, cooked glutinous rice, no amount given
Guk Qu
麴 국 · Brewing Leaven (wine starter)

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Envoy 使

白麴, white leaven, no amount given

Total g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 2 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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

Brewed from grape juice with rice and leaven, drunk as a wine

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

None given; the leaf is a brewing method

Biomedical correlates

A wine; not a therapeutic preparation

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

蒲萄酒, 葡萄熟者, 挼取汁, 同糯米飯ㆍ白麴和釀之, 自然成酒, 味亦美好. 山蒲萄亦可. 《本草》

Translation

Grape Wine. Take ripe grapes, rub them and press out the juice, blend it with cooked glutinous rice and white leaven, and brew; it becomes wine of itself, and the taste is fine. Mountain grapes will also serve. — Boncho 本草 (Donguibogam · Japbang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Grape wine, brewed the East Asian way rather than the European one: the juice is not left to ferment alone but blended with cooked glutinous rice and a wheat leaven, so that the leaven's moulds break down the rice starch while its yeasts work on the grape sugar. 自然成酒, it becomes wine of itself, is a fair description — grape skins carry their own yeasts and grape must needs no help to ferment, which is why this is the one wine in the section with no steeping, no sealing and no count of days. 山蒲萄, the mountain grape, is the wild Amur grape of the Korean hills, smaller and much more acid than the cultivated fruit, and the leaf allows it as a substitute. There is no medicine here. As with the other wines of the section the active substance is the alcohol, and ethanol is a group 1 carcinogen with no safe level of intake. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.