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

Clear the Metal Pill

Cheonggeum-hwan

한글 청금환 · Pinyin Qing Jin Wan

淸金丸

A different formula from the 淸金丸 of the Fire chapter, which is wine-fried scutellaria alone. This one is radish seed and soapberry, and is also called 淸金丹.

Composition 構成

Nabokja Lai Fu Zi
萊菔子 나복자 · Radish Seed

40 g
Chief 君

washed, steamed, sun-dried and powdered
Jogak Zao Jiao
皂角 조각 · Gleditsia Pod

12 g
Deputy 臣

burnt with its nature preserved and powdered

Total 52 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

Treats wheezing panting that breaks out after rich food

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Phlegm and food accumulation provoking wheezing
Wheezing after rich or greasy food

Biomedical correlates

Food-triggered asthma

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治哮喘遇厚味發者. 蘿葍子(淘洗蒸熟晒乾爲末) 一兩, 皂角(燒存性爲末) 三錢. 右末, 薑汁浸蒸餠和丸如蘿葍子大, 每取三四十丸, 淡薑湯呑下. 《入門》 ○一名淸金丹. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats wheezing panting that breaks out on meeting rich food. Radish seed, 1 nyang, washed, steamed, sun-dried and powdered; soapberry, 3 don, burnt with its nature preserved and powdered. Make pills the size of a radish seed with steamed cake soaked in ginger juice, and swallow thirty or forty down with weak ginger decoction. ○ Also called Cheonggeum-dan. — Uihak Immun 入門 · Dangye Simbeop 丹心 (Donguibogam · Haesu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Two drugs for a wheeze that follows a heavy meal. Radish seed is the tradition's drug for food stuck in the middle burner, and soapberry burnt to a charcoal cuts thick phlegm; between them they treat the cause the indication names rather than the breathlessness itself. 遇厚味發者 — breaking out on meeting rich food — is a real and still-recognized pattern, whether the mechanism is reflux provoking bronchospasm or a food trigger proper. Treating the wheeze by treating the meal is sounder than it looks. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.