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Four Juices Paste

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한글 사즙고 · Pinyin Si Zhi Gao

四汁膏

生蘿葍 is written with 葍 in the transcription where the registered medicinal is 蘿蔔; the transcription's glyph is printed and the medicinal is the same radish.

Composition 構成

I Li
梨 이 · Pear

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Chief 君

the juice of snow pear (雪梨), in equal part
Ujeol Ou Jie
藕節 우절 · Lotus Root Node

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Deputy 臣

the juice of the fresh lotus root, in equal part
Nabok Luo Bo
蘿蔔 나복 · Radish

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Deputy 臣

the juice of the fresh radish (生蘿葍), in equal part
Bakha Bo He
薄荷 박하 · Mint

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Assistant 佐

the juice of fresh mint, in equal part
Sadang Sha Tang
砂糖 사당 · Granulated Sugar

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Envoy 使

as sugar crystals, stirred in

Total g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 5 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Stops cough
Disperses phlegm and brings fire down

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Dry heat cough with a sore throat

Biomedical correlates

Dry irritating cough

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

止咳嗽, 消痰降火. 雪梨汁ㆍ藕汁ㆍ生蘿葍汁ㆍ生薄荷汁, 右等分, 入砂糖屑和勻, 慢火熬成膏, 以匙抄服. 《入門》

Translation

Stops cough, disperses phlegm and brings fire down. The juice of snow pear, of lotus root, of fresh radish and of fresh mint, in equal parts; stir in sugar crystals until even, boil down over a slow fire to a paste, and take it a spoonful at a time. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Haesu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Four juices and sugar boiled down to a syrup and taken from a spoon: this is a cough syrup in the literal sense, and it is the only thing in the whole chapter that a modern reader could make and use as written. Pear and lotus root are the tradition's moistening pair for a dry throat, radish cuts the phlegm, mint cools and numbs. Pear syrup for a cough is still made at home in Korea and sold in pharmacies, and 梨汁 with sugar is the base of most of those preparations. The formula has outlived the chapter around it for the reason that it works at the level it claims — it soothes a dry irritable cough and makes no larger promise. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.