Formulas · Stabilize & Astringe 固澀 · Boncho (本草)

Roasted Fowl Powder

Gugye-san

한글 구계산 · Pinyin Jiu Ji San

灸雞散

The source weighs nothing, the dose being one bird.

Composition 構成

Hwangjagye Huang Ci Ji
黃雌雞 황자계 · Yellow Hen

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Chief 君

一隻, one yellow hen, roasted with salt and vinegar brushed on and roasted again until dry

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Actions 效能

Treats a slippery bowel with diarrhoea
Binds the bowel with a roasted fowl

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Slippery bowel with chronic diarrhoea
Red and white dysentery of long standing

Biomedical correlates

Chronic diarrhoea
Convalescent diet in dysentery

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

黃雌雞, 治赤白久痢. 取一隻, 治如食法, 作羹常食之. ○腸滑下痢, 取一隻, 治如食法, 火灸鹽醋刷之, 又灸令燥, 空腹食之, 名灸雞散. 《本草》

Translation

The yellow hen treats long-standing red and white dysentery: take one, dress it as for food, make a soup of it and eat it regularly. ○ For a slippery bowel with diarrhoea: take one, dress it as for food, roast it over the fire brushing it with salt and vinegar, roast it again until dry, and eat it on an empty stomach. It is called Guye-san. — Boncho 本草 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

A roast chicken with a name, and the name calls it a powder — 散 — though nothing is ground. What the method actually produces is a dry, salted, vinegar-glazed bird, and for a patient wasted by months of dysentery that is the right treatment: protein, salt and fluid, taken on an empty stomach so that it is eaten. 腸滑, a slippery bowel, is the Stool chapter's term for a gut that will not hold, and the salt and vinegar are there to bind it. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.