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Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Injae Jikji (仁齋直指方)

Clear the Lung Decoction

Cheongpye-eum

한글 청폐음  ·  Pinyin Qing Fei Yin

淸肺飮

Composition 構成

Total g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 2 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Lung heat with cough and sticky phlegm
  • Fire cough with a dry throat

Biomedical correlates

  • Acute bronchitis with fever

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治肺熱咳嗽. 前胡ㆍ荊芥ㆍ桑白皮ㆍ枳殼 各一錢, 知母ㆍ貝母ㆍ薄荷ㆍ赤茯苓ㆍ桔梗ㆍ紫蘇葉ㆍ阿膠珠ㆍ杏仁ㆍ天門冬ㆍ甘草 各七分. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑三ㆍ梅一, 水煎服. 《直指》

Translation

Treats lung heat with cough. Hogfennel root, schizonepeta, mulberry root bark and bitter orange peel, 1 don each; anemarrhena, fritillary, mint, red poria, platycodon, perilla leaf, donkey-hide gelatin beads, apricot kernel, asparagus root and licorice, 7 fun each. Cut up, make one packet, add three slices of ginger and one smoked plum, and decoct in water. — Injae Jikji 直指 (Donguibogam · Haesu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The chapter's standard prescription for the fire cough of 3.6, and it is built in two halves: hogfennel, schizonepeta, mint and perilla leaf to release what is on the surface, and anemarrhena, fritillary, mulberry root bark and asparagus root to cool and moisten the lung underneath. Gelatin beads and smoked plum are there for the dryness the cooling would otherwise leave. A cough with scant sticky sputum, a red face and thirst — the 火嗽 picture the section gives — is what a modern clinician would see as a dry irritant or post-viral cough, and a moistening rather than an expectorant approach is reasonable for it. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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