Formulas · Tonify Qi 補氣 · Manbyeong Hoechun (萬病回春)

Ginseng and Atractylodes Regulate the Origin Paste

Samchuljowon-go

한글 삼출조원고  ·  Pinyin Shen Zhu Tiao Yuan Gao

參朮調元膏

Composition 構成

Total 1120 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Origin qi depleted with poor appetite and dry flesh

Biomedical correlates

  • Chronic fatigue
  • Convalescent debility

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

扶元氣, 健脾胃, 進飮食, 潤肌膚, 生精血, 眞仙丹也. 雪白朮 一斤, 人參 四兩, 幷剉作片, 入磁鍋, 淨水十椀, 熬取汁二椀. 濾出滓, 又添水熬, 取汁二椀去渣. 將二次汁濾淨, 慢火熬至二椀, 加入蜜 半斤, 再熬至稠, 埋土中三日取出, 日服三四次, 白湯下. 《回春》

Translation

It supports the origin qi, fortifies the spleen and stomach, restores appetite, moistens the flesh and engenders essence and blood — truly an immortals' elixir. Snow-white atractylodes 1 geun and ginseng 4 nyang, both cut into slices, put in a porcelain pot with ten bowls of clean water and reduced to two bowls of liquor. Strain off the dregs, add water and reduce again to two bowls, discarding the residue. Strain the two liquors clean, reduce over a slow fire to two bowls, add half a geun of honey, reduce again until thick, bury in the earth for three days and take out. Take three or four times a day, down with plain hot water. — Manbyeong Hoechun 回春 (Donguibogam · Naesang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Two medicinals extracted twice, the liquors combined and reduced with honey — a decoction concentrated to a syrup. The technique is the same one the Distension chapter uses for Changchul-go and the Accumulations chapter for its pastes. 埋土中三日 — buried in the earth for three days — is the closing step, and it appears in several of these paste preparations. Burying cools slowly and evenly and was held to draw off the fire toxin from long boiling. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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