Suppress the Green Pill

Eokcheong-hwan

한글 억청환 · Pinyin Yi Qing Wan

抑靑丸

Single-herb pill: coptis powdered and bound with rice gruel into pills; 20–30 swallowed with plain boiled water. Also called Hwangryeon-hwan.

Composition 構成

Hwangryeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

40 g
Chief 君 wine- or ginger-juice-fried

Total 40 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

Fells the fire of the Heart channel with a single herb
Treats wine heat along the way

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Heart-channel fire (伐心經之火)
Wine heat (酒熱)
Single-herb fire suppression

Biomedical correlates

Heat presentations with cardiac-region symptoms
Alcohol-related heat
Minimalist clearing therapy

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

伐心經之火, 兼治酒熱. 黃連(酒炒或薑汁炒). 右爲末, 粥丸, 白湯呑下二三十丸. 一名黃連丸. 《丹心》《入門》

Translation

Fells the fire of the Heart channel, and treats wine heat besides. Coptis, fried moistened with wine or ginger juice, is powdered and bound with gruel into pills; swallow 20–30 with plain boiled water. Also called Hwangryeon-hwan. — Dansim 丹心 · Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Hwa)

Clinical commentary 臨床

One herb, and a name that is pure five-phase chess — 'suppress the green' means check the Wood whose fanning feeds the Heart's flame. The chapter's tersest prescription: when the sovereign's palace is burning, send the single coldest thing you have. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.