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Ephedra Decoction

Mahwang-tang

한글 마황탕  ·  Pinyin Ma Huang Tang

麻黃湯

Apricot kernel is counted by the kernel rather than weighed, so grams are given as 0. The Bogam's licorice dose of 6 fun is lower than the Shanghanlun's.

Composition 構成

Total 22.4 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

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Taiyang cold damage with headache
  • body ache and aching of every joint
  • No sweat with aversion to wind and cold

Biomedical correlates

  • Influenza with myalgia
  • Acute bronchitis with wheezing

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治太陽傷寒, 頭痛ㆍ身疼ㆍ百節痛ㆍ無汗ㆍ惡風寒. 麻黃 三錢, 桂枝 二錢, 甘草 六分, 杏仁 十枚. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑 三片, 葱白 二莖, 水煎服, 如上法. 有汗勿再服. 《入門》 ○陶氏麻黃湯, 本方加升麻ㆍ川芎ㆍ白芷ㆍ防風ㆍ羌活ㆍ藁本, 入薑ㆍ葱ㆍ豆豉煎, 熱服, 如上法. 《入門》

Translation

Treats taiyang cold damage with headache, body ache, aching of all the hundred joints, no sweating and aversion to wind and cold. Ephedra, 3 don; cinnamon twig, 2 don; licorice, 6 fun; apricot kernel, ten. Cut up, make one packet, add three slices of ginger and two stalks of scallion white, and decoct in water, following the method above. If sweat is obtained, do not take again. — Immun 入門 ○ Tao's Ephedra Decoction adds cimicifuga, chuanxiong, angelica dahurica, saposhnikovia, notopterygium and ligusticum sinense to the base formula, decocted with ginger, scallion and fermented soybean, taken hot, following the method above. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Han, upper)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The counterpart to Cinnamon Twig Decoction and the other half of Zhongjing's pair: no sweat is the whole indication, and the stop rule is the same — once sweat comes, do not take it again. Ephedra and cinnamon twig together force the pores open; apricot kernel brings the lung qi down so the wheezing settles rather than being driven harder; licorice at a deliberately small dose so as not to slow the others. The Bogam's addition of ginger and scallion is a Korean habit and pushes the sweat a little harder than the original. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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