Clear the Heart Pill

Cheongsim-hwan

한글 청심환 · Pinyin Qing Xin Wan

淸心丸

Pill formula, bulk amounts: powdered and bound with honey into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; 10–20 pills swallowed at bedtime with a mint decoction.

Composition 構成

Hwangbaek Huang Bai
黃柏 황백 · Phellodendron

80 g
Chief 君 raw
Cheonmundong Tian Men Dong
天門冬 천문동 · Asparagus Root

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

40 g
Deputy 臣
Hwangryeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

20 g
Assistant 佐
Yongnoe Long Nao
龍腦 용뇌 · Borneol

4 g
Assistant 佐

Total 184 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 with cold bark and moist tubers
Cools the night with a bedtime mint-borne pill

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Heat of the triple burner (三焦熱)
Evening and night heat with dry mouth
Bedtime clearing regimens

Biomedical correlates

Nocturnal heat sensations
Dry mouth and throat at night
Evening-dosed antipyretic-pattern therapy

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治三焦熱. 黃柏(生) 二兩, 天門冬ㆍ麥門冬各一兩, 黃連五錢, 龍腦一錢. 右爲末, 蜜丸梧子大. 臨臥, 薄荷湯呑下一二十丸. 《元戎》

Translation

Treats heat of the triple burner. Raw phellodendron 2 nyang; asparagus root and ophiopogon, 1 nyang each; coptis 5 don; borneol 1 don. Powder the above and bind with honey into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; at bedtime, swallow 10–20 pills with a mint decoction. — Wonyung 元戎 (Donguibogam · Hwa)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The nightly member of the triple-burner shelf — raw phellodendron leading, the two lush asparagi lending the moisture that dry heat has spent, borneol adding its cold star. Taken lying down, on mint: a formula built for the hour when the Yin takes over and the day's fire should surrender with it. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.