Formulas · Reduce Food Stagnation 消食 · Suyeok (壽域)
Dragon Brain Decoction
Yongnoe-tang
한글 용뇌탕 · Pinyin Long Nao Tang
龍腦湯
Powder method: half a don to one don per dose, taken down with clear tea. The 'dragon brain' of the name is honorific — the formula itself contains none.
Composition 構成
Total 140 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.
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Actions 效能
- Sobers from wine and disperses food with two humble herbs
- Settles the evening in a spoonful of tea
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Ordinary drunkenness and post-meal heaviness (醒酒消食)
- Everyday after-dinner sobering
- The lightest tier of the wine cabinet
Biomedical correlates
- Mild post-drinking malaise
- After-meal heaviness
- Everyday digestif use
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
醒酒消食. 縮砂 二兩, 甘草 一兩半. 右爲末, 每半錢, 或一錢, 茶淸下. 《壽域》
Translation
Sobers from wine and disperses food. Amomum 2 nyang; licorice 1.5 nyang. Powder the pair; take half a don or 1 don each time, sent down with clear tea. — Suyeok 壽域 (Donguibogam · Naesang)
Clinical commentary 臨床
The wine cabinet's smallest gesture — amomum and licorice in a sip of tea, a digestif in powder form for the evening that merely went one course too far. Grand name, gentle medicine: the chapter's reminder that most excesses need only this much. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.