Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Dangye Simbeop (丹溪心法)

Pueraria and Bamboo Shavings Decoction

Galgeunjugyeo-tang

한글 갈근죽여탕 · Pinyin Ge Gen Zhu Ru Tang

葛根竹茹湯

Composition 構成

Galgeun Ge Gen
葛根 갈근 · Kudzu Root

12 g
Chief 君
Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

8 g
Deputy 臣

sliced, boiled with ginger juice and fermented millet water, then dried over heat
Jugyeo Zhu Ru
竹茹 죽여 · Bamboo Shavings

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Deputy 臣

a pellet-sized wad
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

4 g
Envoy 使
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

—
Envoy 使

three slices
Daejo Da Zao
大棗 대조 · Jujube

—
Envoy 使

two fruits

Total g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 3 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Treats stomach heat with vomiting
Better still for the vomiting of drink

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Stomach heat with vomiting
Vomiting after wine

Biomedical correlates

Alcohol-induced vomiting

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治胃熱嘔吐. 葛根三錢, 半夏(切, 薑汁ㆍ漿水同煮, 焙乾) 二錢, 甘草一錢. 右剉, 作一貼, 薑三片ㆍ棗二枚ㆍ竹茹一彈子大, 同煎服. 《丹心》 ○治酒嘔尤妙. 《入門》 ○欲知胃中有熱, 手足心皆熱者是胃熱也. 《入門》

Translation

Treats stomach heat with vomiting. Pueraria, 3 don; pinellia sliced, boiled together with ginger juice and fermented millet water and dried over heat, 2 don; licorice, 1 don. Cut up, make one packet, and decoct together with three slices of ginger, two jujubes and a pellet-sized wad of bamboo shavings. ○ Better still for the vomiting of drink. ○ To know whether there is heat in the stomach: where the palms and soles are all hot, that is stomach heat. — Dangye Simbeop 丹心 · Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Guto)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Three drugs and two garnishes, and the one to notice is the pueraria at 3 don. Pueraria is the drug the tradition uses for the after-effects of drink, and the Immun's addition — 治酒嘔尤妙, better still for the vomiting of drink — says what the formula was actually reached for. The last clause is a physical sign worth keeping: heat in the palms and soles as the way to decide that a vomiting is a hot one. It is the same sign 審病 2.5 reads from the hand, and it costs nothing to check. **Contains pinellia, which is toxic in the raw state; the elaborate preparation given here — boiled with ginger juice and fermented millet water, then dried — is itself the detoxifying step, and the drug must not be used unprocessed.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.