Formulas · Tonify Qi 補氣 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Clear the Lung and Generate the Pulse Drink

Cheongpye-saengmaek-eum

한글 청폐생맥음 · Pinyin Qing Fei Sheng Mai Yin

淸肺生脉飮

Built on 生脉散 — ginseng, ophiopogon and schisandra — with astragalus, tangkuei and raw rehmannia added.

Composition 構成

Hwanggi Huang Qi
黃芪 황기 · Astragalus

8 g
Chief 君
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

4 g
Chief 君
Danggwi Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

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

4 g
Deputy 臣
Maengmundong Mai Men Dong
麥門冬 맥문동 · Liriope

4 g
Deputy 臣
Omija Wu Wei Zi
五味子 오미자 · Schisandra

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Assistant 佐

ten fruits

Total 24 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Treats summerheat injuring the lung with cough
wheezing
vexing thirst and hurried breathing
Supplements the qi and nourishes the blood while moistening the lung

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Summerheat injuring the lung qi with cough and thirst
Qi and yin both injured by heat

Biomedical correlates

Heat exhaustion with dyspnoea
Summer exacerbation of asthma

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治暑傷肺, 咳喘ㆍ煩渴ㆍ氣促. 黃芪二錢, 當歸ㆍ生地黃ㆍ人參ㆍ麥門冬各一錢, 五味子十粒. 右剉, 水煎服. 《入門》

Translation

Treats summerheat injuring the lung, with cough and wheezing, vexing thirst and hurried breathing. Astragalus, 2 don; tangkuei, raw rehmannia, ginseng and ophiopogon, 1 don each; schisandra, ten fruits. Cut up and decoct in water. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Seo)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Saengmaek-san with astragalus doubled over everything else and tangkuei and raw rehmannia added, which turns the three-drug pulse-generating formula into a qi-and-blood one. The indication — cough and wheezing with hurried breathing and thirst in a heat-stricken patient — reads as the respiratory end of heat exhaustion, and the construction is sound for it: astragalus to hold the lung qi, the two moistening drugs for the fluid the heat has taken, schisandra to stop the loss. Six drugs and nothing harsh. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.