Formulas · Stabilize & Astringe 固澀 · Bonsabang (本事方)

Chebula Pill

Garyeoreuk-hwan

한글 가려륵환 · Pinyin He Li Le Wan

訶黎勒丸

Composition 構成

Jeogeunbaekpi Chu Gen Bai Pi
樗根白皮 저근백피 · Ailanthus Root Bark

80 g
Chief 君
Gaja He Zi
訶子 가자 · Chebula

20 g
Deputy 臣

flesh only
Jeonghyang Ding Xiang
丁香 정향 · Clove

—
Assistant 佐

thirty mother-clove buds

Total 100 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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

Treats the resting dysentery on which a hundred medicines have had no effect

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Chronic relapsing dysentery
Enduring dysentery with cold damp

Biomedical correlates

Relapsing chronic dysentery

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治休息痢, 百藥不效. 樗根白皮二兩, 訶子肉五錢, 母丁香三十粒. 右爲末, 醋糊和丸梧子大, 陳米飮入醋少許, 呑下五十丸, 日三. 《本事》

Translation

Treats the resting dysentery on which a hundred medicines have had no effect. Ailanthus root bark, 2 nyang; chebula flesh, 5 don; mother clove, thirty buds. Powder, make pills with vinegar paste the size of a paulownia seed, and swallow fifty in aged rice water with a little vinegar added, three times a day. — Bonsabang 本事 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Chebula is the formula's name but ailanthus bark is four times its weight, so the pill is really the ailanthus given in a convenient form. Vinegar appears twice, in the pill paste and in the vehicle, which is this chapter's standard marker for an astringing intention. A hundred medicines with no effect is the Bonsa's way of saying the case is chronic and nothing tried has worked. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.