Formulas · Warm the Interior 溫裏 · Seui Deukhyobang (世醫得效方)

Cow's Milk Decoction

Uyu-tang

한글 우유탕 · Pinyin Niu Ru Tang

牛乳湯

The anecdote of Emperor Taizong is cited to the Uiseol and is one of the best-known formula stories in the Chinese tradition.

Composition 構成

Pilbal Bi Ba
蓽撥 필발 · Long Pepper

8 g
Chief 君

cut up
Uyu Niu Ru
牛乳 우유 · Cow's Milk

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Envoy 使

half a seung

Total 8 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Treats qi dysentery

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Qi dysentery with cold in the intestines

Biomedical correlates

Chronic diarrhoea

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治氣痢. 蓽撥二錢, 剉; 牛乳半升. 右同煎減半, 空心服. 《得效》 ○唐太宗苦氣痢, 百方不差. 有衛士進此方, 服之卽愈. 《醫說》

Translation

Treats qi dysentery. Long pepper, 2 don, cut up; cow's milk, half a seung. Decoct them together down to half and take on an empty stomach. Emperor Taizong of the Tang suffered from qi dysentery and a hundred prescriptions failed to cure it; a palace guard presented this formula, and on taking it he was healed at once. — Seui Deukhyobang 得效 · Uiseol 醫說 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Two ingredients and a famous story: the emperor whom no court physician could cure, healed by a guardsman's recipe of long pepper boiled in milk. The anecdote is told throughout the tradition as a rebuke to learned medicine. The preparation is milk reduced by half with a pungent spice in it, which is warm, caloric and soothing, and for a chronic functional diarrhoea might well have been more use than the hundred prescriptions. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.