Modified Drain the White Powder

Gagamsabaek-san

한글 가감사백산 · Pinyin Jia Jian Xie Bai San

加減瀉白散

The second formula of this name in this chapter — the first, from Dongwon, is registered as Gagamsabaek-san-gae — and a third stands in the Mouth and Tongue chapter. This one carries no indication of its own in the text, standing in a list of formulas for panting.

Composition 構成

Sangbaekpi Sang Bai Pi
桑白皮 상백피 · Mulberry Root Bark

4 g
Chief 君
Jigolpi Di Gu Pi
地骨皮 지골피 · Lycium Root Bark

4 g
Chief 君
Jimo Zhi Mu
知母 지모 · Anemarrhena

4 g
Deputy 臣
Gilgyeong Jie Geng
桔梗 길경 · Platycodon

4 g
Deputy 臣
Hwanggeum Huang Qin
黃芩 황금 · Scutellaria

2 g
Deputy 臣

the sliced sort (片芩)
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

4 g
Assistant 佐
Cheongpi Qing Pi
靑皮 청피 · Green Tangerine Peel

4 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

2 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

Clears lung heat in panting and cough

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Lung heat with cough and wheezing
Dryness and heat in the upper burner

Biomedical correlates

Bronchitis with dry cough

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

桑白皮ㆍ地骨皮ㆍ知母ㆍ桔梗ㆍ陳皮ㆍ靑皮各一錢, 片芩ㆍ甘草各五分. 右剉, 作一貼, 水煎服. 《寶鑑》

Translation

Mulberry root bark, wolfberry root bark, anemarrhena, platycodon, tangerine peel and unripe tangerine peel, 1 don each; sliced scutellaria and licorice, 5 fun each. Cut up, make one packet, and decoct in water. — Bogam 寶鑑 (Donguibogam · Haesu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The same base as its namesake above but built the other way: no ginseng, no schisandra, and anemarrhena and scutellaria added instead, so the whole formula is cold. It is for the cough of plain lung heat, where the first is for lung heat in a patient who cannot take cooling alone. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.