Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Bonsa (本事)

Free the Diaphragm Decoction

Rigyeok-tang

한글 이격탕  ·  Pinyin Li Ge Tang

利膈湯

Composition 構成

Total 280 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

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Sores of the throat

Biomedical correlates

  • Ulcerative pharyngitis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治咽喉生瘡. 薄荷ㆍ荊芥ㆍ防風ㆍ桔梗ㆍ人參ㆍ鼠粘子(炒)ㆍ甘草 各一兩. 右爲末, 每二錢沸湯點服. 咽痛加白殭蠶. 《本事》

Translation

Treats sores arising in the throat. Mint, schizonepeta, saposhnikovia, platycodon, ginseng, burdock seed (stir-fried) and licorice 1 nyang each. Powder them and take 2 don at a time stirred into freshly boiled water; for throat pain add silkworm. — Bonsa 本事 (Donguibogam · Inhu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Ginseng among six dispersing medicinals — the Bonsa's way of treating a throat that has been sore long enough to wear the patient down. 5.16's ulcers are the chronic kind, not the acute closure of 5.8. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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