Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Onbyeongjobyeon (溫病條辨)

Sweet Wormwood and Turtle Shell Decoction

Cheonghobyeolgap-tang

한글 청호별갑탕 · Pinyin Qing Hao Bie Jia Tang

靑蒿鱉甲湯

Composition 構成

Byeolgap Bie Jia
鱉甲 별갑 · Turtle Carapace

12 g
Chief 君
Cheongho Qing Hao
靑蒿 청호 · Sweet Wormwood

8 g
Chief 君
Saengjihwang Sheng Di Huang
生地黃 생지황 · Raw Rehmannia

8 g
Deputy 臣
Mokdanpi Mu Dan Pi
牧丹皮 목단피 · Moutan Bark

6 g
Assistant 佐
Jimo Zhi Mu
知母 지모 · Anemarrhena

4 g
Assistant 佐

Total 38 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

Nourishes Yin and vents lingering heat from the Yin level
Clears the fever that hides by day and rises by night

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Heat smoldering in the Yin level after febrile disease
Night fever receding by dawn without sweating
Low evening fevers with a red tongue and little coating

Biomedical correlates

Unexplained lingering evening fevers
Post-infectious night fever patterns
Chronic low-grade fevers of Yin-deficiency type

Clinical commentary 臨床

Byeolgap dives into the Yin level where Cheongho alone cannot reach; Cheongho vents outward what Byeolgap alone cannot expel — the classic description of a chief-pair working as one key. Cheongho is the artemisinin plant, giving this formula an unlikely Nobel footnote. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.