Formulas · Drain Dampness 利水滲濕 · Junggyeong (仲景)

Polyporus Powder

Jeoryeong-san

한글 저령산 · Pinyin Zhu Ling San

猪苓散

Composition 構成

Jeoryeong Zhu Ling
猪苓 저령 · Polyporus

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Chief 君

equal parts
Jeokbongnyeong Chi Fu Ling
赤茯苓 적복령 · Poria (red)

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Chief 君

equal parts
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

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Deputy 臣

equal parts

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 thirst coming after the vomiting
and is to be given at once where a patient vomits and craves water

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Water rheum in the stomach with thirst after vomiting

Biomedical correlates

Vomiting with polydipsia

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治先嘔後渴, 嘔吐而思水解者, 急與之. 猪苓ㆍ赤茯苓ㆍ白朮各等分. 右爲末, 每一二錢, 水調服. ○一人每嘔水二三椀, 諸藥不效, 但吃井華水一口卽止, 用此藥卽愈. 《仲景》

Translation

Treats thirst coming after the vomiting; where a patient vomits and craves water to relieve it, give this at once. Polyporus, red poria and white atractylodes, equal parts. Grind to a powder and give 1 or 2 don each time, stirred into water. ○ There was a man who vomited two or three bowls of water at a time and whom no medicine helped; a single mouthful of newly drawn well water stopped it, and with this medicine he was cured. — Junggyeong 仲景 (Donguibogam · Guto)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Three bland drugs and nothing else, given as a powder in water. The discrimination the chapter makes at 2.3 is the whole point: thirst before the vomiting calls for Jeokbokryeong-tang, thirst after it for this; and where water itself is vomited as soon as it is drunk, for Oryeong-san. The case at the end is worth reading twice. A man vomiting bowls of water whom nothing helped, stopped by one mouthful of cold well water — the observation is that in this state small sips of cold water are tolerated when anything else is not, which is still how such a patient is rehydrated by mouth. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.