Formulas · Reduce Food Stagnation 消食 · Boncho (本草)

Sober Up Alone Decoction

Dokseong-tang

한글 독성탕 · Pinyin Du Xing Tang

獨醒湯

Composition 構成

Gampi Gan Pi
柑皮 감피 · Mandarin Peel

40 g
Chief 君

柑子皮, baked and powdered
Yeom Yan
鹽 염 · Salt

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Envoy 使

鹽少許, a little salt

Total 40 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

Resolves wine toxin and the thirst of drink
Brings a drinker round quickly

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Wine toxin with thirst
Hangover with thirst and a thick head

Biomedical correlates

Hangover
Alcohol-related dyspepsia

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

柑皮, 解酒毒及酒渴, 要易醒. 柑子皮焙爲末, 入鹽少許, 沸湯點一錢服, 名曰獨醒湯. 《本草》

Translation

Mandarin peel resolves wine toxin and the thirst of drink, and is wanted for sobering up easily. Mandarin peel baked and powdered, with a little salt added, 1 don infused in boiling water and taken. It is called Dokseong-tang. — Boncho 本草 (Donguibogam · Naesang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

獨醒, sobering up alone, and the name is a joke at the drinker's expense — the one person at the table still clear-headed. Baked citrus peel with a pinch of salt in hot water is a warm salty drink, and for someone dehydrated after drinking that is close to the right thing: fluid and sodium. It shares its romanization with the Women chapter's 獨聖湯, which is a different formula entirely and is registered as dokseong-tang-buin. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.