Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Clear the Bone Powder

Cheonggol-san

한글 청골산 · Pinyin Qing Gu San

淸骨散

Composition 構成

Saengjihwang Sheng Di Huang
生地黃 생지황 · Raw Rehmannia

8 g
Chief 君
Siho Chai Hu
柴胡 시호 · Bupleurum

8 g
Chief 君
Sukjihwang Shu Di Huang
熟地黃 숙지황 · Prepared Rehmannia

4 g
Deputy 臣
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

4 g
Deputy 臣
Hohwangryeon Hu Huang Lian
胡黃連 호황련 · Picrorhiza

2 g
Deputy 臣
Bangpung Fang Feng
防風 방풍 · Siler

4 g
Assistant 佐
Bakha Bo He
薄荷 박하 · Mint

2.8 g
Assistant 佐
Jingyo Qin Jiao
秦艽 진교 · Large Gentian

2 g
Assistant 佐

秦芃
Jeokbokryeong Chi Fu Ling
赤茯苓 적복령 · Poria (red)

2 g
Assistant 佐

Total 36.8 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

Clears vacuity heat at its onset before it becomes consumption

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Vexing heat of the five hearts first felt
about to become taxation consumption and steaming bone

Biomedical correlates

Early tuberculosis
Chronic low-grade fever

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

初覺五心煩熱, 欲成勞瘵骨蒸如神. 生地黃ㆍ柴胡各二錢, 熟地黃ㆍ人參ㆍ防風各一錢, 薄荷七分, 秦芃ㆍ赤茯苓ㆍ胡黃連各五分. 右剉, 作一貼, 水煎服. 《入門》

Translation

Where vexing heat of the five hearts is first felt and is about to become taxation consumption and steaming bone, it acts as though by spirit. Fresh rehmannia and bupleurum 2 don each; cooked rehmannia, ginseng and saposhnikovia 1 don each; mint 7 pun; large gentian, red poria and picrorhiza 5 pun each. Cut up, make one packet, decoct in water and take. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Hwa)

Clinical commentary 臨床

初覺 — first felt — defines the window. This is for the stage before consumption sets in, and the chapter's 5.12 section on the five hearts describes the sign: heat in the palms, soles and chest, worse at evening. Picrorhiza and large gentian are the pair the tradition reaches for in steaming bone specifically; both clear heat from the bones rather than from the surface or the organs. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.