Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Uihak Jeongjeon (醫學正傳)

Clear Heat and Drain Damp Decoction

Cheongyeolsaseup-tang

한글 청열사습탕 · Pinyin Qing Re Xie Shi Tang

淸熱瀉濕湯

Cut and made into one packet, decocted in water and taken. For pain add aucklandia; for swelling add areca husk; for heat add coptis and rhubarb.

Composition 構成

Changchul Cang Zhu
蒼朮 창출 · Black Atractylodes

4 g
Chief 君
Hwangbaek Huang Bai
黃柏 황백 · Phellodendron

4 g
Chief 君 salt-wine-fried
Jasoyeop Zi Su Ye
紫蘇葉 자소엽 · Perilla Leaf

2.8 g
Deputy 臣
Jeokjakyak Chi Shao
赤芍藥 적작약 · Red Peony

2.8 g
Deputy 臣
Mogwa Mu Gua
木瓜 모과 · Chinese Quince

2.8 g
Deputy 臣
Taeksa Ze Xie
澤瀉 택사 · Alisma

2.8 g
Assistant 佐
Moktong Mu Tong
木通 목통 · Akebia

2.8 g
Assistant 佐
Bangi Fang Ji
防己 방기 · Sinomenium

2.8 g
Assistant 佐
Binrang Bing Lang
檳榔 빈랑 · Areca Seed

2.8 g
Assistant 佐
Jigak Zhi Qiao
枳殼 지각 · Bitter Orange

2.8 g
Assistant 佐
Hyangbuja Xiang Fu
香附子 향부자 · Cyperus

2.8 g
Assistant 佐
Ganghwal Qiang Huo
羌活 강활 · Notopterygium

2.8 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

2.8 g
Envoy 使

Total 38.8 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 damp heat behind swollen painful legs
Leads the medicines downward with akebia and stephania

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Damp heat with leg qi swelling and pain in all its forms (治濕熱脚氣腫痛諸證)
Hot swollen lower legs
Damp heat of the lower limbs

Biomedical correlates

Lower leg swelling with heat and pain
Inflammatory edema of the legs
Damp-heat presentations of the lower limbs

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治濕熱, 脚氣腫痛諸證. 蒼朮ㆍ黃柏(鹽酒炒) 各一錢, 紫蘇葉ㆍ赤芍藥ㆍ木瓜ㆍ澤瀉ㆍ木通ㆍ防己ㆍ檳榔ㆍ枳殼ㆍ香附子ㆍ羌活ㆍ甘草各七分. 右剉, 作一貼, 水煎服. 痛加木香, 腫加大腹皮, 熱加黃連ㆍ大黃. 《正傳》

Translation

Treats damp heat and all the signs of leg qi swelling and pain. Atractylodes and salt-wine-fried phellodendron, 1 don each; perilla leaf, red peony, chaenomeles, alisma, akebia, stephania, areca nut, bitter orange husk, cyperus, notopterygium, and licorice, 7 fun each. Cut the above, make one packet, decoct in water and take. For pain add aucklandia; for swelling add areca husk; for heat add coptis and rhubarb. — Jeongjeon 正傳 (Donguibogam · Jok)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The chapter's general damp-heat formula, and it is built exactly on the treatment recipe the Uigam lays out — atractylodes and phellodendron for the damp heat, chaenomeles and areca for the Qi, notopterygium for the joints, and akebia and stephania to lead everything down. The three modifications at the end make it a working template rather than a fixed prescription. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.