Formulas · Transform Phlegm 化痰 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Seojukdang's Transform Phlegm Pill

Seojukdanghwadam-hwan

한글 서죽당화담환 · Pinyin Rui Zhu Tang Hua Tan Wan

瑞竹堂化痰丸

Composition 構成

Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

160 g
Chief 君 4 nyang; boiled in an earthenware pot with arisaema, ginger, alum and gleditsia pod until no white specks remain in the arisaema
Namseong Tian Nan Xing
天南星 천남성 · Arisaema

160 g
Chief 君 4 nyang; boiled with the above until no white specks remain
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

160 g
Assistant 佐 4 nyang; used in the preliminary boiling
Baekban Bai Fan
白礬 백반 · Alum

160 g
Assistant 佐 4 nyang; used in the preliminary boiling
Jogak Zao Jiao
皂角 조각 · Gleditsia Pod

160 g
Assistant 佐 4 nyang; used in the preliminary boiling, then discarded (去皂角不用)
Cheongpi Qing Pi
靑皮 청피 · Green Tangerine Peel

40 g
Assistant 佐
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

40 g
Assistant 佐
Galgeun Ge Gen
葛根 갈근 · Kudzu Root

40 g
Assistant 佐乾葛
Soja Zi Su Zi
蘇子 자소자 · Perilla Seed

40 g
Assistant 佐
Singok Shen Qu
神麴 신곡 · Medicated Leaven

40 g
Assistant 佐
Maega Mai Ya
麥芽 맥아 · Barley Sprout

40 g
Assistant 佐
Sansa Shan Zha
山楂 산사 · Hawthorn

40 g
Assistant 佐 flesh only (山査肉)
Nabokja Lai Fu Zi
萊菔子 나복자 · Radish Seed

40 g
Assistant 佐蘿葍子
Hyangbuja Xiang Fu
香附子 향부자 · Cyperus

40 g
Assistant 佐
Haengin Xing Ren
杏仁 행인 · Apricot Kernel

40 g
Assistant 佐

Total 1200 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

Transforms alcohol phlegm
Disperses food and gladdens the spleen
Normalizes the qi dynamic

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Alcohol phlegm with vomiting the day after drinking
No relish for food
Vomiting of sour water

Biomedical correlates

Alcohol-related gastritis
Hangover with nausea and phlegm

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治酒痰, 消食, 快脾, 順氣. 半夏ㆍ南星ㆍ生薑ㆍ白礬ㆍ皂角各四兩, 同入砂鍋內水煮, 以南星無白點爲度, 去皂角不用. 入靑皮ㆍ陳皮ㆍ乾葛ㆍ蘇子ㆍ神麴ㆍ麥芽ㆍ山査肉ㆍ蘿葍子ㆍ香附子ㆍ杏仁各一兩. 右爲末, 薑汁浸蒸餅和丸梧子大, 每五七十丸, 食後臨臥, 茶酒任意下. 《入門》

Translation

Treats alcohol phlegm, disperses food, gladdens the spleen and normalizes the qi. Pinellia, arisaema, fresh ginger, alum and gleditsia pod 4 nyang each: put them together in an earthenware pot and boil in water until no white specks remain in the arisaema, then discard the gleditsia pod. Add green tangerine peel, tangerine peel, pueraria, perilla seed, medicated leaven, barley sprout, hawthorn flesh, radish seed, cyperus and apricot kernel, 1 nyang each. Powder them, make pills with steamed cake soaked in ginger juice, the size of a firmiana seed, and take fifty to seventy after meals and at bedtime, down with tea or wine as preferred. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Damum)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The test for whether the processing is done is stated as an observation rather than a time: boil until no white specks remain in the arisaema. White specks are unconverted starchy tissue, and their disappearance marks the point at which the raw drug's irritancy has been cooked out. Gleditsia pod does its work in the pot and is then thrown away, which is worth noting because it appears in the ingredient list without ever entering the finished pill. The second half of the formula is a food-dispersing set, and pueraria is the classical medicinal for resolving alcohol. Taking the pills down with wine, offered here as an option, is the sort of instruction that dates a text. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.