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Ten Jujubes Decoction
Sipjo-tang
한글 십조탕 · Pinyin Shi Zao Tang
The jujubes are not an ingredient but the vehicle: they are decocted, discarded, and the three powdered drugs stirred into their liquor. The dose is graded by the patient's strength.
Composition 構成
- Wonhwa芫花 원화 · Genkwa (toxic)4 g
Chief 君lightly stir-fried · toxic
- Gamsu甘遂 감수 · Kansui (toxic)4 g
Chief 君toxic
- Daegeuk大戟 대극 · Peking Spurge (toxic)4 g
Chief 君stir-fried · toxic
- Daejo大棗 대조 · Jujube—
Envoy 使ten, decocted separately as the vehicle
Total 12 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient 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
- Treats cold damage with suspended rheum and hidden rheum and pain drawing below the ribs
- Expels water by the stool
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Suspended rheum below the ribs with pain
- Water collected in the pleural space
Biomedical correlates
- Pleural effusion
- Ascites
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治傷寒有懸飮ㆍ伏飮ㆍ脇下引痛. 芫花(微炒)ㆍ甘遂ㆍ大戟(炒) 右等分爲末. 別取大棗 十枚, 水一盞煎至半盞, 去棗, 調藥末, 强人 一錢ㆍ弱人 半錢服. 大便利下水, 以粥補之. 《入門》 ○河間曰, 芫花之辛以散飮, 二物之苦以泄水; 甘遂直達水氣所結之處, 乃泄水之聖藥, 然有毒, 不可輕用. 《宣明》
Translation
Treats cold damage with suspended rheum and hidden rheum and pain drawing below the ribs. Genkwa, lightly stir-fried, kansui and stir-fried euphorbia, in equal parts, powdered. Separately take ten large jujubes, boil in 1 cup of water down to half a cup, remove the jujubes, and stir the powder in — 1 don for the robust, half a don for the weak. When the stool loosens and the water comes down, restore him with gruel. Hagan says: the acridity of genkwa disperses the rheum and the bitterness of the other two drains the water; kansui goes straight to the place where the water qi is bound and is the sage medicine for draining water — but it is toxic and must not be used lightly. — Uihak Immun 入門 · Seonmyeongbang 宣明 (Donguibogam · Han)