Formulas · Dispel Wind-Damp 祛風濕 · Seui Deukhyobang (世醫得效方)

Mysterious Left Channel Decoction

Sinbijwagyeong-tang

한글 신비좌경탕  ·  Pinyin Shen Mi Zuo Jing Tang

神秘左經湯

Cut and made into one packet with 3 slices of ginger and 2 jujubes, decocted and taken.

Composition 構成

Total 44 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Wind cold summerheat and damp pouring into the three foot Yang channels (風寒暑濕流注足三陽經)
  • Legs and knees cramped swollen and painful
  • Leg qi in the Yang channels

Biomedical correlates

  • Leg swelling with cramping and pain
  • Wind-damp arthropathy of the legs
  • Multi-factor leg qi

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治風寒暑濕流注足三陽經, 脚膝拘攣腫痛. 麻黃ㆍ桂心ㆍ黃芩ㆍ枳殼ㆍ柴胡ㆍ赤茯苓ㆍ半夏ㆍ羌活ㆍ防風ㆍ厚朴ㆍ白薑ㆍ小草ㆍ防己ㆍ麥門冬ㆍ乾葛ㆍ細辛ㆍ甘草 各五分. 右剉, 作一貼, 薑三棗二, 煎服. 《得效》

Translation

Treats wind, cold, summerheat, and damp pouring into the three foot Yang channels, with legs and knees cramped, swollen, and painful. Ephedra, cinnamon heart, scutellaria, bitter orange husk, bupleurum, red poria, pinellia, notopterygium, saposhnikovia, magnolia bark, dried ginger, small polygala, stephania, ophiopogon, kudzu root, asarum, and licorice, 5 fun each. Cut the above, make one packet, add 3 slices of ginger and 2 jujubes, decoct and take. — Deukhyo 得效 (Donguibogam · Jok)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The head of a set of four 'left channel' formulas found almost nowhere else in the literature. This one covers all three foot Yang channels at once, and its seventeen herbs at a flat five fun each are a deliberate breadth rather than a lack of focus: wind, cold, summerheat, and damp are all being addressed because the indication names all four. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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