Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Gogeum Uigam (古今醫鑑)

Clear the Fire Decoction

Cheonghwa-tang

한글 청화탕 · Pinyin Qing Huo Tang

淸火湯

Cut and divided into two packets, decocted in water and taken.

Composition 構成

Daehwang Da Huang
大黃 대황 · Rhubarb

6 g
Chief 君 wine-steamed
Gilgyeong Jie Geng
桔梗 길경 · Platycodon

4.8 g
Deputy 臣
Hyeonsam Xuan Shen
玄參 현삼 · Scrophularia

4.8 g
Deputy 臣
Yeongyo Lian Qiao
連翹 연교 · Forsythia

4 g
Deputy 臣
Chija Zhi Zi
梔子 치자 · Gardenia

4 g
Deputy 臣 dry-fried
Mangcho Mang Xiao
芒硝 망초 · Mirabilite

4 g
Deputy 臣
Hwanggeum Huang Qin
黃芩 황금 · Scutellaria

4 g
Assistant 佐 wine-fried
Hwangryeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

4 g
Assistant 佐 wine-fried
Paemo Bei Mu
貝母 패모 · Fritillaria

4 g
Assistant 佐
Cheonhwabun Tian Hua Fen
天花粉 천화분 · Trichosanthes Root

4 g
Assistant 佐
Dokhwal Du Huo
獨活 독활 · Aralia

4 g
Assistant 佐
Jeonho Qian Hu
前胡 전호 · Peucedanum

4 g
Assistant 佐
Siho Chai Hu
柴胡 시호 · Bupleurum

4 g
Assistant 佐
Jeokbokryeong Chi Fu Ling
赤茯苓 적복령 · Poria (red)

4 g
Assistant 佐
Jigak Zhi Qiao
枳殼 지각 · Bitter Orange

4 g
Assistant 佐
Bakha Bo He
薄荷 박하 · Mint

3.2 g
Assistant 佐
Ganghwal Qiang Huo
羌活 강활 · Notopterygium

3.2 g
Assistant 佐
Cheongung Chuan Xiong
川芎 천궁 · Cnidium

3.2 g
Assistant 佐
Bangpung Fang Feng
防風 방풍 · Siler

2.4 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

1.6 g
Envoy 使

Total 77.2 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 the triple burner's heat on the widest frame in the chapter
Courses drains moistens and lifts in one nineteen-herb sweep

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Heat of the triple burner in its full spread (三焦熱)
Mixed heat with surface and interior signs together
The comprehensive decoction of the fire cabinet

Biomedical correlates

Complex inflammatory presentations
Mixed upper and lower heat symptoms
Broad-spectrum short-course therapy

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治三焦熱. 大黃(酒蒸) 一錢半, 桔梗ㆍ玄參各一錢二分, 連翹ㆍ梔子(炒)ㆍ芒硝ㆍ片芩(酒炒)ㆍ黃連(酒炒)ㆍ貝母ㆍ天花粉ㆍ獨活ㆍ前胡ㆍ柴胡ㆍ赤茯苓ㆍ枳殼各一錢, 薄荷ㆍ羌活ㆍ川芎各八分, 防風六分, 甘草四分. 右剉, 分作二貼, 水煎服. 《醫鑑》

Translation

Treats heat of the triple burner. Wine-steamed rhubarb 1.5 don; platycodon and scrophularia, 1.2 don each; forsythia, dry-fried gardenia, mirabilite, wine-fried lamellar scutellaria, wine-fried coptis, fritillaria, trichosanthes root, pubescent angelica, hogfennel, bupleurum, red poria, and bitter orange husk, 1 don each; mint, notopterygium, and cnidium, 0.8 don each; saposhnikovia 0.6 don; licorice 0.4 don. Cut the above, divide into two packets, decoct in water and take. — Uigam 醫鑑 (Donguibogam · Hwa)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The cabinet's omnibus — every strategy the chapter has taught, in one pot: wine-steamed rhubarb and mirabilite for the lower door, the wind team for the surface, moisteners against the dryness clearing leaves behind, and platycodon rowing the whole convoy upward. Nineteen herbs split over two packets: the fire chapter's full orchestra, played once through. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.