Formulas · Stop Cough & Wheeze 止咳平喘 · Seopsaeng Jungmyobang (攝生衆妙方)
Arrest Wheezing Decoction
Jeongcheon-tang
한글 정천탕 · Pinyin Ding Chuan Tang
The chapter carries a second 定喘湯, the Uigam's verse formula with ass-hide glue and poppy husk, registered as Jeongcheon-tang-gae. 不須薑 — no ginger is needed — is worth keeping, since almost every other formula in the chapter adds it.
Composition 構成
- Baekgwa白果 백과 · Ginkgo Nut8 g
Chief 君 - Mahwang麻黃 마황 · Ephedra6 g
Chief 君 - Gwandonghwa款冬花 관동화 · Coltsfoot Flower6 g
Deputy 臣 - Haengin杏仁 행인 · Apricot Kernel6 g
Deputy 臣 - Soja蘇子 자소자 · Perilla Seed4 g
Deputy 臣 - Sangbaekpi桑白皮 상백피 · Mulberry Root Bark6 g
Assistant 佐 - Banha半夏 반하 · Pinellia6 g
Assistant 佐 - Hwanggeum黃芩 황금 · Scutellaria4 g
Assistant 佐 - Gamcho甘草 감초 · Licorice4 g
Envoy 使
Total 50 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.
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
- Disseminates the Lung and directs Qi downward
- Clears heat and transforms phlegm to arrest wheezing
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Wind-cold constraining the exterior with phlegm-heat within
- Wheezing with thick yellow sputum and cough
- Asthma-pattern episodes with chest tightness
Biomedical correlates
- Asthma with productive wheeze (the classical asthma standard)
- Bronchitis with wheezing
- Cold-triggered flares of hot phlegm
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
歌曰, 諸病原來有藥方, 惟愁齁喘最難當, 麻黃桑杏尋蘇子, 白果冬花更又良, 甘草黃芩同半夏, 水煮百沸不須薑, 病人遇此仙丹藥, 服後方知定喘湯. ○治哮喘神方. 麻黃 三錢, 杏仁 一錢半, 片芩ㆍ半夏ㆍ桑白皮ㆍ蘇子ㆍ欵冬花ㆍ甘草 各一錢, 白果<span class='sochu'>卽銀杏</span> 二十一箇(去殼碎炒黃色). 右剉, 作一貼, 水煎服, 不拘時. 《回春》
Translation
The verse runs: every illness has had its prescription from the first, but the one dread is wheezing panting, hardest of all to withstand — ephedra, mulberry root bark and apricot kernel, then look for perilla seed; ginkgo nut and coltsfoot flower are better still; licorice and scutellaria together with pinellia; boil it in water a hundred times and no ginger is needed; when the sick man meets this elixir of the immortals, only after taking it does he know Arrest Wheezing Decoction. ○ A divine prescription for wheezing panting. Ephedra, 3 don; apricot kernel, 1 don 5 fun; sliced scutellaria, pinellia, mulberry root bark, perilla seed, coltsfoot flower and licorice, 1 don each; ginkgo nut<span class='sochu'>that is, the silver apricot</span>, twenty-one of them, shelled, broken and dry-fried to a yellow colour. Cut up, make one packet, and decoct in water, to be taken at any hour. — Manbyeong Hoechun 回春 (Donguibogam · Haesu)