Formulas · Warm the Interior 溫裏 · Jikji (直指)

Tsaoko Drink

Chogwa-eum

한글 초과음 · Pinyin Cao Guo Yin

草果飮

Composition 構成

Chogwa Cao Guo
草果 초과 · Tsaoko Fruit

4 g
Chief 君
Yanggang Gao Liang Jiang
良薑 양강 · Lesser Galangal

4 g
Chief 君
Baekji Bai Zhi
白芷 백지 · Dahurian Angelica

4 g
Deputy 臣
Cheongung Chuan Xiong
川芎 천궁 · Cnidium

4 g
Deputy 臣
Jasoyeop Zi Su Ye
紫蘇葉 자소엽 · Perilla Leaf

4 g
Deputy 臣
Cheongpi Qing Pi
靑皮 청피 · Green Tangerine Peel

4 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

4 g
Envoy 使

Total 28 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

Warms and dries cold lodged in the middle in cold malaria
Frees the qi in the flanks with green tangerine peel

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Cold malaria (寒瘧) with much cold and little heat
Cold stagnation in the middle with qi bound in the flanks

Biomedical correlates

Malaria with predominant rigors
Chronic chills with abdominal fullness

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治寒瘧. 草果ㆍ白芷ㆍ良薑ㆍ靑皮ㆍ川芎ㆍ紫蘇葉ㆍ甘草各一錢. 右剉, 作一貼, 水煎服. 《直指》

Translation

Treats cold malaria. Tsaoko, angelica dahurica, lesser galangal, green tangerine peel, cnidium, perilla leaf and licorice, 1 don each. Cut up, make one packet, and decoct in water and take. — Jikji 直指 (Donguibogam · Haehak)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Seven drugs at one weight, built around tsaoko and lesser galangal, with angelica dahurica, cnidium and perilla leaf giving it just enough reach to the surface to count as a malaria formula rather than a plain warmer of the middle. Green tangerine peel is the chapter's habitual addition wherever cold malaria has bound the qi in the flanks. Set beside Gwabu-tang it marks the milder end of the same indication. Where Gwabu-tang answers a cold deep enough to want aconite and reads the diagnosis off a green-blue face, this one stays with aromatics and treats cold malaria as a disorder of the middle that still has an outward edge. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.