Formulas · Tonify Yin 補陰 · Manbyeong Hoechun (萬病回春)

Generate Fluid and Supplement the Blood Decoction

Saengjinbohyeol-tang

한글 생진보혈탕 · Pinyin Sheng Jin Bu Xue Tang

生津補血湯

Composition 構成

Danggwi Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

4 g
Chief 君
Sukjihwang Shu Di Huang
熟地黃 숙지황 · Prepared Rehmannia

4 g
Chief 君
Saengjihwang Sheng Di Huang
生地黃 생지황 · Raw Rehmannia

4 g
Chief 君
Baekjagyak Bai Shao
白芍藥 백작약 · White Peony

4 g
Deputy 臣
Paemo Bei Mu
貝母 패모 · Fritillaria

2.8 g
Deputy 臣
Baekbongnyeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

4 g
Assistant 佐
Jisil Zhi Shi
枳實 지실 · Immature Bitter Orange

2.8 g
Assistant 佐
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

2.8 g
Assistant 佐
Hwangnyeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

2.8 g
Assistant 佐

fried
Soja Zi Su Zi
蘇子 자소자 · Perilla Seed

2.8 g
Assistant 佐
Sain Sha Ren
砂仁 사인 · Amomum

2 g
Assistant 佐

written 縮砂 in the text
Chimhyang Chen Xiang
沈香 침향 · Agarwood

2 g
Envoy 使

ground in water and the juice taken, added to the strained decoction
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

—
Envoy 使

one slice
Daejo Da Zao
大棗 대조 · Jujube

—
Envoy 使

two fruits

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

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Actions 效能

Treats gullet block in the young
where the blood of the stomach duct is dry and unmoistened
so that the stool is blocked and food will not go down

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Blood dryness of the stomach duct in a young patient
Constipation with food refusal

Biomedical correlates

Dysphagia with constipation in a young patient — historical treatment

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治年少人噎膈, 乃胃脘血燥不潤, 故便閉塞而食不下. 當歸ㆍ白芍藥ㆍ熟地黃ㆍ生地黃ㆍ白茯苓各一錢, 枳實ㆍ陳皮ㆍ黃連(炒)ㆍ蘇子ㆍ貝母各七分, 縮砂ㆍ沉香(水磨取汁) 各五分. 右剉, 作一貼, 薑一ㆍ棗二, 水煎, 入沉香汁調服. 《回春》

Translation

Treats gullet block in the young, which is because the blood of the stomach duct is dry and unmoistened, so that the stool is blocked and food will not go down. Chinese angelica, white peony, prepared rehmannia, raw rehmannia and white poria, 1 don each; bitter orange, tangerine peel, fried coptis, perilla seed and fritillaria, 7 fun each; cardamom and aquilaria ground in water for its juice, 5 fun each. Cut up, make one packet, add one slice of ginger and two jujubes, decoct in water, and take with the aquilaria juice stirred in. — Manbyeong Hoechun 回春 (Donguibogam · Guto)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The companion to Dangguiyanghyeol-tang and the difference between them is the patient's age: this one is for the young, and where the elder's formula carries magnolia bark, cyperus and trichosanthes for phlegm, this carries both rehmannias for the dryness. The reasoning is that in a young patient the gullet is dry rather than obstructed by phlegm. 胃脘血燥不潤, 故便閉塞 — the blood of the stomach duct dry, and so the stool blocked — is the chapter's own mechanism for gullet block, and it is why 嘔吐噎膈反胃宜通大便 goes on to treat the condition by opening the bowels. Constipation here is not a complication but part of the diagnosis. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.