Formulas · Drain Dampness 利水滲濕 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)
Mulberry Root Bark Drink
Sangbaekpi-eum
한글 상백피음 · Pinyin Sang Bai Pi Yin
桑白皮飮
Composition 構成
- Sangbaekpi桑白皮 상백피 · Mulberry Root Bark160 g
Chief 君 - Cheongnyangmi靑粱米 청량미 · Green Foxtail Millet240 g
Deputy 臣靑梁米 四合, green millet, approx: true
Total 400 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.
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
- Treats water swelling with hurried panting
- Drains water through the lung
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Water swelling with breathlessness
- Oedema with a full chest
Biomedical correlates
- Oedema with dyspnoea
- Congestive heart failure with breathlessness
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
桑白皮, 治水腫, 喘急. 桑白皮 四兩, 靑梁米 四合, 同煮爛, 取淸飮. 名桑白皮飮. 《入門》
Translation
Mulberry root bark treats water swelling with hurried panting. Mulberry root bark 4 nyang and green millet 4 hop, boiled together until soft, the clear liquid taken. It is called Sangbaekpi-eum. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Bujong)
Clinical commentary 臨床
Two ingredients, one of them a grain, and the whole prescription is a thin millet broth drunk clear. 水腫喘急, water swelling with hurried panting, is the presentation that matters most in the Oedema chapter and the one that still does: swollen legs with breathlessness is heart failure until proved otherwise, and it needs a diagnosis rather than a diuretic broth. Mulberry root bark is the corpus's lung-draining diuretic and is named in the chapter's own tally line as one of the three formulas its simples contain. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.