Formulas · Release the Exterior 解表 · Hwarin (活人)

Seven-Ingredient Scallion White Powder

Chilmichongbaek-san

한글 칠미총백산 · Pinyin Qi Wei Cong Bai San

七味葱白散

甘爛水 is water stirred until it froths, a preparation the classics specify where the drug is to act gently; counted and volume-measured drugs are given as 0 grams.

Composition 構成

Galgeun Ge Gen
葛根 갈근 · Kudzu Root

12 g
Chief 君
Chongbaek Cong Bai
蔥白 총백 · Scallion White

—
Chief 君

three stalks with the roots left on
Maengmundong Mai Men Dong
麥門冬 맥문동 · Liriope

12 g
Deputy 臣
Sukjihwang Shu Di Huang
熟地黃 숙지황 · Prepared Rehmannia

12 g
Deputy 臣
Damdusi Dan Dou Chi
淡豆豉 담두시 · Prepared Soybean

—
Assistant 佐

half a hop
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

—
Envoy 使

one hop, sliced

Total 36 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 3 ingredients 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

Releases the exterior while supplementing the fluids
Resolves relapse from exertion or eating without exhausting the patient

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Relapse of cold damage in a depleted patient
Exterior pattern where sweating would cost fluid the patient lacks

Biomedical correlates

Relapsing fever in a debilitated convalescent

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治勞復ㆍ食復. 葱白(連根) 三莖, 乾葛ㆍ麥門冬ㆍ熟地黃各三錢, 香豉半合, 生薑(切) 一合. 右剉, 以甘爛水四升煎之, 三分減, 去滓, 分二服. 《活人》

Translation

Treats relapse from exertion and relapse from eating. Scallion white with the roots left on, three stalks; pueraria, ophiopogon and prepared rehmannia, 3 don each; fermented soybean, half a hop; sliced fresh ginger, 1 hop. Cut up and decoct in 4 seung of sweet-stirred water, reducing it by a third; strain and take in two doses. — Hwarin 活人 (Donguibogam · Han, lower)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Seven drugs, and the choice behind them is the point: a convalescent who relapses still has an exterior pattern, but sweating a depleted patient is how the ruined patterns of the preceding sections come about. So prepared rehmannia and ophiopogon go in beside the scallion, pueraria and fermented soybean — the formula supplements with one hand while it releases with the other. Scallion with the roots left on is the detail most often lost in transmission; the root is held to reach deeper than the stalk. Sweet-stirred water and a gentle reduction complete a formula designed throughout not to overshoot. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.