Formulas · Warm the Interior 溫裏 · Jeongjeon (正傳)

True Warrior Decoction

Jinmu-tang

한글 진무탕 · Pinyin Zhen Wu Tang

眞武湯

The source writes 茯苓 and 芍藥 without specifying; registered as white poria and white peony. The note on the name records the Song taboo on the graph 玄.

Composition 構成

Baekbongnyeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

12 g
Chief 君
Buja Fu Zi
附子 부자 · Prepared Aconite

12 g
Chief 君

blast-fried · toxic
Baekjagyak Bai Shao
白芍藥 백작약 · White Peony

12 g
Deputy 臣
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

8 g
Deputy 臣
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

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Envoy 使

five slices

Total 44 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Warms the yang and moves water
Stops diarrhoea and retching from water overflowing

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Shaoyin disease with abdominal fullness and pain
urine passing freely
and diarrhoea or retching
Yang depletion with water flooding

Biomedical correlates

Congestive heart failure with oedema
Chronic diarrhoea with fluid retention

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治少陰病, 腹滿痛ㆍ小便利, 或下利, 或嘔. 茯苓ㆍ芍藥ㆍ附子(炮) 各三錢, 白朮二錢. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑五片, 水煎服. 《正傳》 ○古名玄武湯, 後世避諱改爲眞武湯.

Translation

Treats shaoyin disease with abdominal fullness and pain and urine passing freely, or with diarrhoea, or with retching. Poria, peony and blast-fried aconite, 3 don each; atractylodes, 2 don. Cut up, make one packet, add five slices of ginger and decoct in water. — Jeongjeon 正傳 ○ Its old name was <span class='sochu'>Hyeonmu-tang</span> 玄武湯; later ages avoided the tabooed graph and changed it to Jinmu-tang. (Donguibogam · Han, upper)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Urine passing freely is the detail that makes the diagnosis. Abdominal fullness with retained urine would be water bound below; here the urine runs, so the water is not dammed but loose and overflowing, which happens when the yang can no longer hold it in place. Aconite supplies that yang, poria and atractylodes move the water, and peony — the one drug that looks out of place — relieves the abdominal pain and stops the warming drugs from drying the patient out. The old name is the northern black warrior, the water-governing deity, which is as good a mnemonic for the formula as any. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.