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Mantis Egg-Case Powder (Jikji)
Sangpyocho-san
한글 상표초산 · Pinyin Sang Piao Xiao San
A second prescription of this name, distinct from the Boncho Yeonui formula registered at sangpyocho-san, which has the same eight chief ingredients at 8 g and neither turtle carapace nor licorice. The Sobyeon chapter gives this one, at 20 g each with licorice added and a ginseng-poria-mulberry decoction as the vehicle.
Composition 構成
- Sangpyocho桑螵蛸 상표초 · Mantis Egg Case20 g
Chief 君steamed with salt water
- Wonji遠志 원지 · Polygala20 g
Deputy 臣prepared with ginger
- Seokchangpo石菖蒲 석창포 · Acorus20 g
Deputy 臣stir-fried with salt
- Yonggol龍骨 용골 · Dragon Bone20 g
Deputy 臣 - Insam人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng20 g
Assistant 佐 - Boksin茯神 복신 · Poria with hostwood20 g
Assistant 佐 - Danggwi當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica20 g
Assistant 佐washed in wine
- Byeolgap鼈甲 별갑 · Turtle Carapace20 g
Assistant 佐roasted with vinegar
- Gamcho甘草 감초 · Licorice10 g
Envoy 使roasted
Total 170 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 a white urine thick as rice-washing water passed dozens of times a day
- Settles the spirit and secures the kidney in turbid urine from sexual taxation
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- White turbid urine, copious and frequent, from sexual taxation
- Absent-mindedness and bewilderment with wasting
- Emaciation with a worn look and a clouded mind
Biomedical correlates
- Chyluria or marked proteinuria presenting as persistently milky urine
- Prostatorrhoea
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
小便白如稠米泔, 日數十次, 心神恍惚, 瘦瘁, 此以女勞得之也. 桑螵蛸(鹽水拌蒸)ㆍ遠志(薑製)ㆍ石菖蒲(鹽炒)ㆍ龍骨ㆍ人參ㆍ白茯神ㆍ當歸(酒洗)ㆍ鼈甲(醋灸) 各五錢, 甘草(灸) 二錢半. 右爲末, 每二錢, 臨臥, 以人參ㆍ茯苓ㆍ桑白皮煎湯調下. 盖桑皮行水, 接螵蛸歸腎經之意也. 《直指》
Translation
The urine comes white and thick as rice-washing water, dozens of times a day, the mind absent and bewildered, the body wasted and worn — this is got by sexual taxation. Mantis egg-case (steamed with salt water), polygala (prepared with ginger), acorus (stir-fried with salt), dragon bone, ginseng, poria-with-wood, tangkuei (washed in wine) and turtle carapace (roasted with vinegar), 5 jeon each; roasted licorice 2 jeon 5 pun. Powder them, and take 2 jeon at bedtime stirred into a decoction of ginseng, poria and mulberry root bark. The mulberry bark moves the water, and the sense of it is that it carries the mantis egg-case home to the kidney channel. — Jikji 直指 (Donguibogam · Sobyeon)