Formulas · Stop Cough & Wheeze 止咳平喘 · Jungjo (中朝)

Cockcrow Pill

Gyemyeong-hwan

한글 계명환 · Pinyin Ji Ming Wan

雞鳴丸

The source mark is 《中朝》, the Bogam's label for a formula had from the Chinese court rather than from a named book; it occurs only here in this chapter. This is the second of two formulas named 雞鳴丸 in the chapter — the other stands in the 久喘 group — and the two are unrelated.

Composition 構成

Jimo Zhi Mu
知母 지모 · Anemarrhena

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Chief 君

equal part, dry-fried in wine
Paemo Bei Mu
貝母 패모 · Fritillaria

—
Chief 君

equal part, dry-fried
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

—
Chief 君

equal part
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

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Deputy 臣

equal part, the white removed
Sangbaekpi Sang Bai Pi
桑白皮 상백피 · Mulberry Root Bark

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Deputy 臣

equal part, honey-fried
Gwandonghwa Kuan Dong Hua
款冬花 관동화 · Coltsfoot Flower

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Deputy 臣

equal part
Haengin Xing Ren
杏仁 행인 · Apricot Kernel

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Deputy 臣

equal part, dry-fried with bran
Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

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Deputy 臣

equal part, processed with ginger, toxic in the raw state
Seonbokhwa Xuan Fu Hua
旋覆花 선복화 · Inula Flower

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Assistant 佐

equal part
Cheonmundong Tian Men Dong
天門冬 천문동 · Asparagus Root

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Assistant 佐

equal part
Maengmundong Mai Men Dong
麥門冬 맥문동 · Liriope

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Assistant 佐

equal part
Jeongnyeokja Ting Li Zi
葶藶子 정력자 · Pepperweed Seed

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Assistant 佐

equal part, dry-fried
Gilgyeong Jie Geng
桔梗 길경 · Platycodon

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Assistant 佐

equal part
Agyo E Jiao
阿膠 아교 · Donkey-hide Gelatin

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Assistant 佐

equal part, roasted to beads
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

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Envoy 使

equal part

Total g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 15 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

Received this formula from your practitioner? Amounts shown here are classical reference values — granule and prepared products differ. Always follow your prescribed dosage and directions.

Actions 效能

Treats panting and cough of every kind

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Panting with cough, lung heat with phlegm and dryness together

Biomedical correlates

Chronic cough with wheeze

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

通治喘嗽. 知母(酒炒)ㆍ貝母(炒)ㆍ陳皮(去白)ㆍ桑白皮(蜜炒)ㆍ欵冬花ㆍ旋覆花ㆍ天門冬ㆍ麥門冬ㆍ人參ㆍ葶藶子(炒)ㆍ桔梗ㆍ杏仁(麩炒)ㆍ半夏(薑製)ㆍ阿膠珠ㆍ甘草各等分. 右爲末, 蜜丸彈子大, 以烏梅湯或薑湯化下一丸. 《中朝》

Translation

Treats panting and cough of every kind. Anemarrhena dry-fried in wine, fritillaria dry-fried, tangerine peel with the white removed, mulberry root bark honey-fried, coltsfoot, inula, asparagus, ophiopogon, ginseng, lepidium seed dry-fried, platycodon, apricot kernel dry-fried with bran, pinellia processed with ginger, ass-hide glue roasted to beads, and licorice, in equal parts. Grind to a powder and make honey pills the size of a bullet; dissolve one in smoked-plum decoction or ginger decoction and give it down. — Jungjo 中朝 (Donguibogam · Haesu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Fifteen drugs in equal parts and a formula built to cover every case rather than to fit one: two fritillary-and-anemarrhena pairs for the heat, coltsfoot and inula for the cough, asparagus and ophiopogon for the dryness, pinellia and apricot kernel for the phlegm, lepidium for the water, ginseng and glue for what the illness has taken. 通治, treating all cases alike, is the chapter's own word for this class, and the honey pill dissolved in smoked-plum or ginger decoction is a lozenge in all but name. **Contains pinellia, which is toxic in the raw state and must be properly processed.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.