Formulas · Release the Exterior 解表 · Onbyeongjobyeon (溫病條辨, 1798)

Honeysuckle and Forsythia Powder

Eungyo-san

한글 은교산 · Pinyin Yin Qiao San

銀翹散

Composition 構成

Geumeunhwa Jin Yin Hua
金銀花 금은화 · Honeysuckle

6 g
Chief 君
Yeongyo Lian Qiao
連翹 연교 · Forsythia

6 g
Chief 君
Gilgyeong Jie Geng
桔梗 길경 · Platycodon

4 g
Deputy 臣
Bakha Bo He
薄荷 박하 · Mint

4 g
Deputy 臣
Ubangja Niu Bang Zi
牛蒡子 우방자 · Burdock Seed

4 g
Deputy 臣
Nogeun Lu Gen
蘆根 노근 · Reed Rhizome

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

3 g
Assistant 佐
Hyeonggae Jing Jie
荊芥 형개 · Schizonepeta

3 g
Assistant 佐
Damdusi Dan Dou Chi
淡豆豉 담두시 · Prepared Soybean

3 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

3 g
Envoy 使

Total 40 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

Actions 效能

Releases exterior wind-heat with cool acridity
Clears heat and relieves toxicity

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Wind-heat invasion with fever and slight chills
Sore swollen throat with thirst
Early warm-disease with floating rapid pulse

Biomedical correlates

Sore-throat-dominant colds and flu
Early febrile viral illness
Tonsillitis-type presentations

Clinical commentary 臨床

The warm-disease school's counterpoint to the Shanghan cold formulas — when the throat burns from the first hour, this is the pattern. The single most recognized wind-heat formula among English-speaking practitioners. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.