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Formulas · Harmonize 和解 · Seongong (省翁)

Raw and Cooked Drink

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한글 생숙음자  ·  Pinyin Sheng Shu Yin Zi

生熟飮子

Every one of the twelve drugs is used half raw and half processed, which is the formula's organizing principle and the source of its name.

Composition 構成

Total 4 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 11 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

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Dysentery with cold and heat mixed
  • Vacuity accumulation dysentery in children

Biomedical correlates

  • Chronic dysentery
  • Paediatric chronic diarrhoea

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治大人諸痢及小兒虛積痢, 日夜無度. 鸎粟殼 大者四箇(去瓤蔕, 半灸半生), 陳皮 一片(半生半炒), 甘草 二寸(半生半灸), 烏梅 二箇(半生半煨), 大棗 二枚(半生半煨), 生薑 二塊(半生半煨), 木香 一錢(作兩片, 半生半煨), 訶子 大者二箇(半生半煨), 黑豆 六十粒(半生半炒), 黃芪 二寸(半生半灸), 白朮 二塊(半生半煨), 當歸 二寸(半生半煨). 右剉和勻, 每服五錢, 水一盞半, 同入磁甁內, 煮至半, 去滓溫服. 小兒服一二合. 此方分生熟ㆍ均冷熱, 冷熱旣散, 腸胃旣厚, 則水糓自分, 何患瀉痢哉? 《省翁》

Translation

Treats the several dysenteries in adults and the vacuity-accumulation dysentery in children, without number day and night. Poppy husk, four large ones with pith and calyx removed, half roasted and half raw; tangerine peel, one piece, half raw and half stir-fried; licorice, two inches, half raw and half roasted; mume plum, two fruits, half raw and half roasted in dough; jujube, two fruits, half raw and half roasted in dough; fresh ginger, two pieces, half raw and half roasted in dough; costus root, 1 don in two pieces, half raw and half roasted in dough; chebula, two large fruits, half raw and half roasted in dough; black soybean, sixty beans, half raw and half stir-fried; astragalus, two inches, half raw and half roasted; white atractylodes, two pieces, half raw and half roasted in dough; tangkuei, two inches, half raw and half roasted in dough. Cut up and mix evenly; for each dose take 5 don in a cup and a half of water, put it in a porcelain bottle, boil down to half, strain and take warm. A child takes one or two hop. This formula divides raw from cooked and balances cold against hot; cold and hot once dispersed and the intestine and stomach once made firm, the water and grain separate of themselves — what then is there to fear from diarrhoea and dysentery? — Seongong 省翁 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The strangest formula in the chapter and the one with the clearest idea behind it: every drug is used half raw and half cooked, so that each contributes both its cooling uncooked nature and its warming processed one. Seongong's reasoning is set out at the end — divide raw from cooked, balance cold against hot, and the bowel will sort the water from the grain by itself — which is a theory of therapeutic neutrality rather than of opposition. It is the only formula here designed for a case where the physician cannot tell whether the pattern is hot or cold, and that it was given to children suggests it was thought safe. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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