Formulas · Stop Cough & Wheeze 止咳平喘 · Gihyo Yangbang (奇效良方)

Perilla Seed Decoctum

Soja-jeon

한글 소자전 · Pinyin Su Zi Jian

蘇子煎

Composition 構成

Soja Zi Su Zi
蘇子 자소자 · Perilla Seed

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Chief 君

one seung, pounded separately to a powder
Haengin Xing Ren
杏仁 행인 · Apricot Kernel

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Chief 君

one seung, skins, tips and twinned kernels removed, ground separately to a paste
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

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Deputy 臣

one seung of the juice, poured over the two seed drugs
Saengjihwang Sheng Di Huang
生地黃 생지황 · Raw Rehmannia

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Deputy 臣

one seung of the juice, poured over the two seed drugs
Jungnyeok Zhu Li
竹瀝 죽력 · Bamboo Sap

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Deputy 臣

may replace the rehmannia juice
Bongmil Feng Mi
蜂蜜 봉밀 · Honey

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Envoy 使

one seung of white honey, mixed in at the end

Total g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 6 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Treats rising qi and cough in the old and depleted

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Qi rising with cough in an aged, depleted patient

Biomedical correlates

Chronic cough in the elderly

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治老虛人上氣咳嗽. 紫蘇子一升(另擣爲末), 杏仁(去皮尖雙仁) 一升(另硏爲泥), 生薑汁ㆍ生地黃汁ㆍ白蜜各一升. 蘇杏二味, 以二汁澆之, 絞取汁, 其滓再擣再絞, 令味盡出, 乃合蜜攪勻, 盛器中, 重湯煮如餳. 每服一大匙, 日三. 或去地黃汁, 代竹瀝亦佳. 《奇效》

Translation

Treats rising qi and cough in the old and depleted. Perilla seed, 1 seung, pounded separately to a powder; apricot kernel, 1 seung, with the skins, tips and twinned kernels removed, ground separately to a paste; the juice of fresh ginger, the juice of raw rehmannia and white honey, 1 seung each. Pour the two juices over the perilla and apricot, wring out the liquid, pound and wring the dregs again so that all the flavour comes out, then mix in the honey, put it in a vessel and boil it in a double boiler to the consistency of malt sugar. One large spoonful each dose, three times a day. Or leave out the rehmannia juice and put bamboo sap in its place, which is also good. — Gihyo 奇效 (Donguibogam · Haesu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Another paste rather than a decoction, and made in a double boiler so that nothing scorches. The two seed drugs are expressed with ginger and rehmannia juice, wrung twice, and set with honey; what the patient takes is a sweet oily syrup, a spoonful three times a day. For an old patient with a chronic cough that form is the whole merit of it. Perilla seed and apricot kernel are both oily and both bring the qi down, and in honey they coat the throat as they go. 老虛人, the old and depleted, is the indication, and the formula asks nothing of them but a spoonful. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.