Bamboo Leaf and Gypsum Decoction

Jugyeopseokgo-tang

한글 죽엽석고탕 · Pinyin Zhu Ye Shi Gao Tang

竹葉石膏湯

Bamboo leaf, rice and ginger juice are counted or measured by spoon rather than weighed, so grams are given as 0.

Composition 構成

Seokgo Shi Gao
石膏 석고 · Gypsum

16 g
Chief 君
Jugyeop Zhu Ye
竹葉 죽엽 · Bamboo Leaf

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Chief 君

seven leaves
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

8 g
Deputy 臣
Maengmundong Mai Men Dong
麥門冬 맥문동 · Liriope

6 g
Deputy 臣
Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

4 g
Assistant 佐
Gaengmi Jing Mi
粳米 갱미 · Non-glutinous Rice

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Assistant 佐

a hundred grains
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

2.8 g
Envoy 使
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

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Envoy 使

two spoonfuls of the juice

Total 36.8 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 3 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

Clears residual heat and supplements the qi
Generates fluids and stops thirst and vexation

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Residual heat after cold damage has resolved
Yangming pattern with spontaneous sweating and vexing thirst
Depletion vexation after recovery

Biomedical correlates

Convalescent fever with dehydration
Post-infectious fatigue with thirst

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治傷寒解後餘熱, 及陽明證自汗ㆍ煩渴, 幷差後虛煩等證. 石膏四錢, 人參二錢, 麥門冬一錢半, 半夏一錢, 甘草七分. 右剉, 作一貼, 入竹葉七片, 粳米百粒, 水煎, 入薑汁二匙服. 《入門》

Translation

Treats residual heat after cold damage has resolved, and the yangming pattern with spontaneous sweating and vexing thirst, together with depletion vexation after recovery and the like. Gypsum, 4 don; ginseng, 2 don; ophiopogon, 1 don 5 fun; pinellia, 1 don; licorice, 7 fun. Cut up, make one packet, add seven bamboo leaves and a hundred grains of non-glutinous rice, decoct in water, and take with two spoonfuls of ginger juice stirred in. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Han, upper)

Clinical commentary 臨床

White Tiger Decoction rebuilt for a patient who has already been ill for a fortnight: gypsum stays, anemarrhena goes, and in its place come ginseng and ophiopogon. That substitution is the formula's reason for existing — residual heat in an emptied patient needs replacing as much as clearing, and anemarrhena would clear without replacing. Bamboo leaf carries the heat out through the urine. The pinellia and ginger juice look out of place in a cooling formula and are not: a convalescent stomach often refuses what it is given, and these two keep the cup down. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.