Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Onbyeongjobyeon (溫病條辨)

Clear the Nutritive Level Decoction

Cheongyeong-tang

한글 청영탕 · Pinyin Qing Ying Tang

淸營湯

Composition 構成

Suugak Shui Niu Jiao
水牛角 수우각 · Water Buffalo Horn

12 g
Chief 君
Saengjihwang Sheng Di Huang
生地黃 생지황 · Raw Rehmannia

10 g
Deputy 臣
Hyeonsam Xuan Shen
玄參 현삼 · Scrophularia

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

6 g
Deputy 臣
Geumeunhwa Jin Yin Hua
金銀花 금은화 · Honeysuckle

6 g
Assistant 佐
Yeongyo Lian Qiao
連翹 연교 · Forsythia

4 g
Assistant 佐
Dansam Dan Shen
丹參 단삼 · Salvia

4 g
Assistant 佐
Jukyeop Zhu Ye
竹葉 죽엽 · Bamboo Leaf

4 g
Assistant 佐
Hwangryeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

3 g
Assistant 佐

Total 55 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 heat from the Yeong (nutritive) level
Nourishes Yin and vents heat back out to the Qi level

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Heat entering the nutritive level — night-worse fever with restlessness
Faint indistinct rashes with a deep red tongue
Thirst oddly absent as heat steams the Yin

Biomedical correlates

Severe febrile illness with rash (acute care context)
Heat-stage inflammatory presentations
High fever with agitation and dark red tongue

Clinical commentary 臨床

The formula for heat that has slipped past the Qi level into the Blood's antechamber — cleared while Eunhwa and Yeongyo hold the door open so it can be vented back out. Water buffalo horn stands in for the rhinoceros horn of the original, as modern practice requires. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.