Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Injae Jikji (仁齋直指方)

Trichosanthes Root Powder

Cheonhwa-san

한글 천화산 · Pinyin Tian Hua San

天花散

Composition 構成

Cheonhwabun Tian Hua Fen
天花粉 천화분 · Trichosanthes Root

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

8 g
Deputy 臣 dried (生乾)
Galgeun Ge Gen
葛根 갈근 · Kudzu Root

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

4 g
Assistant 佐
Omija Wu Wei Zi
五味子 오미자 · Schisandra

4 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

2 g
Envoy 使
Gaengmi Jing Mi
粳米 갱미 · Non-glutinous Rice

2 g
Envoy 使 100 grains

Total 32 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 and engenders fluids as a sagely thirst medicine
Moistens the Lung and Stomach to relieve wasting-thirst

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Wasting-thirst (消渴) generally — named a sagely medicine for the disease
Heat with fluid damage in the upper and middle burners
Thirst with dry mouth and tongue

Biomedical correlates

Polydipsia in diabetes and prediabetes
Persistent thirst in febrile convalescence
Dry mouth with heat intolerance

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治消渴, 聖藥也. 天花粉ㆍ生乾地黃各二錢, 葛根ㆍ麥門冬ㆍ五味子各一錢, 甘草五分. 右剉, 作一貼, 入粳米百粒, 水煎服. 《直指》

Translation

A sagely medicine for treating wasting-thirst. Trichosanthes root and dried raw rehmannia, 2 don each; kudzu root, ophiopogon, and schisandra, 1 don each; licorice 0.5 don. Cut the above, make one packet, add 100 grains of non-glutinous rice, decoct in water and take. — Jikji 直指 (Donguibogam · Sogal)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Trichosanthes root was the sogal herb before there was a sogal chapter — here it finally leads its own formula, with a hundred grains of rice to remind the clearing where the fluids are supposed to come from. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.