Saposhnikovia and Angelica Drink

Pattern-based

• Wind heat dryness heat and damp heat together (風熱燥熱濕熱)
• Fire on a ground that also needs supplementing
• The fine preparation for supplementing vacuity (補虛之良劑)

Biomedical correlates

• Mixed inflammatory presentations in depleted patients
• Chronic heat with constitutional weakness
• Balanced clearing-supporting therapy

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

瀉心肝火, 補脾腎陰, 治風熱燥熱濕熱, 補虛之良劑也. 滑石 三錢, 柴胡ㆍ人參ㆍ赤茯苓ㆍ甘草 各一錢, 大黃ㆍ當歸ㆍ赤芍藥ㆍ防風 各五分. 右剉, 作一服, 入薑三片, 水煎服. ○大黃瀉陽明之濕熱, 從大便出, 滑石降三焦之妄火, 從小便出, 黃芩以凉膈, 防風以淸頭目, 人參ㆍ甘草以補氣, 當歸ㆍ芍藥以補血, 無半味辛香燥熱之謬藥也. 《丹心》

Translation

Drains the fire of Heart and Liver and supplements the Yin of Spleen and Kidney; treats wind heat, dryness heat, and damp heat — a fine preparation for supplementing vacuity. Talcum 3 don; bupleurum, ginseng, red poria, and licorice, 1 don each; rhubarb, Korean angelica, red peony, and saposhnikovia, 0.5 don each. Cut the above, make one dose, add 3 slices of ginger, decoct in water and take. — Rhubarb drains the Yang-brightness damp heat, exiting by the stool; talcum downs the triple burner's reckless fire, exiting by the urine; scutellaria cools the diaphragm; saposhnikovia clears head and eyes; ginseng and licorice supplement the Qi; angelica and peony supplement the Blood — and there is not half a flavor of acrid, fragrant, drying-hot mistaken medicine in it. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Hwa)