Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Gogeum Uigam (古今醫鑑)

Modified Elsholtzia and Poria Decoction

Gagamyeoryeong-tang

한글 가감여령탕 · Pinyin Jia Jian Ru Ling Tang

加減薷苓湯

Composition 構成

Gwarugeun Gua Lou Gen
瓜蔞根 과루근 · Trichosanthes Root

8 g
Chief 君
Jeokbongnyeong Chi Fu Ling
赤茯苓 적복령 · Poria (red)

4 g
Deputy 臣
Hyangyu Xiang Ru
香薷 향유 · Elsholtzia

2.8 g
Deputy 臣
Galgeun Ge Gen
葛根 갈근 · Kudzu Root

2.8 g
Deputy 臣

dried pueraria (乾葛)
Jeoryeong Zhu Ling
猪苓 저령 · Polyporus

2.8 g
Assistant 佐
Taeksa Ze Xie
澤瀉 택사 · Alisma

2.8 g
Assistant 佐
Hwangnyeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

2 g
Assistant 佐
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

2 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

2 g
Envoy 使
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

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Envoy 使

three slices

Total g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Treats heat thirst in sudden turmoil

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Summerheat damp heat with thirst
Heat thirst after vomiting and diarrhoea

Biomedical correlates

Dehydration with fever in summer gastroenteritis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治霍亂熱渴. 天花粉二錢, 赤茯苓一錢, 猪苓ㆍ澤瀉ㆍ香薷ㆍ乾葛各七分, 黃連ㆍ白朮ㆍ甘草各五分. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑三片, 水煎服. 《醫鑑》

Translation

Treats heat thirst in sudden turmoil. Trichosanthes root, 2 don; red poria, 1 don; polyporus, alisma, elsholtzia and dried pueraria, 7 fun each; coptis, white atractylodes and licorice, 5 fun each. Cut up, make one packet, add three slices of ginger, and decoct in water. — Gogeum Uigam 醫鑑 (Donguibogam · Gwallan)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Oryeong-san with the cinnamon taken out and thirst-quenching drugs put in: trichosanthes root leading, pueraria for fluid, elsholtzia for the summer damp, coptis for the heat. The design answers the problem the chapter keeps returning to — that a patient who has lost fluid is thirsty, and that giving a diuretic to such a patient needs care. Here the diuretics are the bland pair, polyporus and alisma, and the bulk of the formula is for generating fluid. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.