Clear Dryness Decoction

Cheongjo-tang

한글 청조탕 · Pinyin Qing Zao Tang

淸燥湯

Cut and made into one packet, decocted in water and taken.

Composition 構成

Hwanggi Huang Qi
黃芪 황기 · Astragalus

6 g
Chief 君
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

6 g
Chief 君
Changchul Cang Zhu
蒼朮 창출 · Black Atractylodes

4 g
Deputy 臣
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

2 g
Deputy 臣
Saengjihwang Sheng Di Huang
生地黃 생지황 · Raw Rehmannia

1.2 g
Deputy 臣
Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

1.2 g
Deputy 臣
Maekmundong Mai Men Dong
麥門冬 맥문동 · Liriope

1.2 g
Deputy 臣
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

2.8 g
Assistant 佐
Taeksa Ze Xie
澤瀉 택사 · Alisma

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

2 g
Assistant 佐
Omija Wu Wei Zi
五味子 오미자 · Schisandra

2 g
Assistant 佐 9 grains
Jeoryeong Zhu Ling
猪苓 저령 · Polyporus

1.2 g
Assistant 佐
Singok Shen Qu
神麴 신곡 · Medicated Leaven

1.2 g
Assistant 佐
Hwangryeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

0.8 g
Assistant 佐
Hwangbaek Huang Bai
黃柏 황백 · Phellodendron

0.8 g
Assistant 佐
Seungma Sheng Ma
升麻 승마 · Cimicifuga

2 g
Envoy 使
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

1.2 g
Envoy 使
Siho Chai Hu
柴胡 시호 · Bupleurum

0.8 g
Envoy 使

Total 39.2 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

Answers the wilting and paralysis brought on by late-summer damp heat
Supplements the center while damp heat is drained

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Damp heat exuberant in late summer with both legs wilting reverting and paralysed (長夏濕熱盛兩脚痿厥癱瘓)
Seasonal wilting
Damp heat on a depleted center

Biomedical correlates

Summer-onset leg weakness
Heat-related weakness with fatigue
Damp-heat depletion

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治長夏濕熱盛, 兩脚痿厥癱瘓. 黃芪ㆍ白朮各一錢半, 蒼朮一錢, 陳皮ㆍ澤瀉各七分, 赤茯苓ㆍ人參ㆍ升麻各五分, 生地黃ㆍ當歸ㆍ猪苓ㆍ麥門冬ㆍ神麴ㆍ甘草各三分, 黃連ㆍ黃柏ㆍ柴胡各二分, 五味子九粒. 右剉, 作一貼, 水煎服. 《東垣》

Translation

Treats late summer with damp heat exuberant, and both legs wilting, reverting, and paralysed. Astragalus and white atractylodes, 1 don 5 fun each; atractylodes 1 don; tangerine peel and alisma, 7 fun each; red poria, ginseng, and cimicifuga, 5 fun each; raw rehmannia, Korean angelica, polyporus, ophiopogon, medicated leaven, and licorice, 3 fun each; coptis, phellodendron, and bupleurum, 2 fun each; schisandra, 9 grains. Cut the above, make one packet, decoct in water and take. — Dongwon 東垣 (Donguibogam · Jok)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Dongyuan's formula, and it bears his signature: astragalus and atractylodes lead, cimicifuga and bupleurum lift, and the clearing herbs are kept to two fun apiece. That proportion is the argument — late-summer wilting is damp heat falling on a center already worn down by the season, so the center is rebuilt first and the heat cleared only lightly. It is the counterpart to the aggressive damp-heat formulas earlier in the chapter, for the patient who cannot take them. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.