Formulas · Transform Phlegm 化痰 · Manbyeong Hoechun (萬病回春)

Clear the Hearing and Transform Phlegm Pill

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한글 청총화담환  ·  Pinyin Qing Cong Hua Tan Wan

淸聰化痰丸

Composition 構成

Total 352 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 2 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Liver and stomach fire with phlegm — deafness and ringing

Biomedical correlates

  • Hearing loss with tinnitus

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治飮食厚味挾怒氣以動肝胃之火, 致耳聾耳鳴壅閉不聞聲音. 橘紅(去白鹽水洗)ㆍ赤茯苓ㆍ蔓荊子 各一兩, 片芩(酒炒) 八錢, 黃連(酒炒)ㆍ白芍藥(酒浸煨)ㆍ生地黃(酒洗)ㆍ柴胡ㆍ半夏(薑製) 各七錢, 人參 六錢, 靑皮(醋炒) 五錢, 生甘草 四錢. 右爲末, 葱湯浸蒸餠和丸菉豆大, 茶淸下百丸. 《回春》

Translation

Treats rich food together with anger stirring the fire of liver and stomach, so that the ears are deaf and ringing, blocked and stopped so that no sound is heard. Red tangerine peel (the white removed, salt-water washed), red poria and vitex fruit 1 nyang each; sliced scutellaria (wine-fried) 8 don; coptis (wine-fried), white peony (wine-steeped and roasted), fresh rehmannia (wine-washed), bupleurum and pinellia (ginger-processed) 7 don each; ginseng 6 don; green tangerine peel (vinegar-fried) 5 don; raw licorice 4 don. Powder them, bind with steamed bread soaked in scallion decoction into pills the size of a mung bean, and take a hundred with clear tea. — Manbyeong Hoechun 回春 (Donguibogam · I)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The third of the Hoechun's three — for both ears deaf, which 4.5.1 assigns to the stomach and to rich living. Vitex fruit is the medicinal the tradition sends to the head for a clouded ear or eye. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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