Clearing Six-to-One Pill

Cheongryuk-hwan

한글 청륙환 · Pinyin Qing Liu Wan

淸六丸

Built on 益元散 (talc and licorice, the Six-to-One Powder), which the Bogam cites to the Summerheat chapter; that formula is not yet registered on this site, so it is given here as the base of the composition rather than linked.

Composition 構成

Hwalseok Hua Shi
滑石 활석 · Talc

120 g
Chief 君

as Igwon-san (六一散): talc with licorice, 3 nyang of the powder
Hongguk Hong Qu
紅麴 홍국 · Red Yeast Rice

20 g
Deputy 臣

stir-fried
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

—
Envoy 使

the licorice of the base powder

Total 140 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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

Treats damp heat diarrhoea

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Damp heat in the intestines with a hot urgent stool
Summerheat damp diarrhoea

Biomedical correlates

Infectious diarrhoea
Summer enteritis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治濕熱泄瀉. 益元散(方見暑門) 三兩, 加紅麴半兩(炒). 右爲末, 陳米飯和丸梧子大, 空心, 白湯下五七十丸. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats damp heat diarrhoea. Igwon-san (its formula is in the Summerheat chapter), 3 nyang, with half a nyang of stir-fried red yeast rice added. Powder, make pills with aged cooked rice the size of a paulownia seed, and take fifty to seventy on an empty stomach in plain hot water. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Talc and licorice — the six-to-one powder, the tradition's plainest cooling diuretic — with red yeast rice added and the whole made into pills with cold rice. The name says the intent: the same base as the warming Onryuk-hwan further on, but turned to the hot diarrhoea instead of the cold one. Red yeast rice is the interesting ingredient, a fermented <em>Monascus</em> preparation used here as a digestive and blood mover; it is the same organism whose monacolin content made it a modern lipid-lowering supplement. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.