Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Hwaje Gukbang (和劑局方)

Sophora Fruit Pill

Goegak-won

한글 괴각원 · Pinyin Huai Jiao Yuan

槐角元

Composition 構成

Goegakja Huai Jiao Zi
槐角子 괴각자 · Pagoda Tree Fruit

160 g
Chief 君

4 nyang
Jiyu Di Yu
地楡 지유 · Burnet Root

80 g
Deputy 臣

2 nyang
Hwanggeum Huang Qin
黃芩 황금 · Scutellaria

80 g
Deputy 臣

2 nyang
Bangpung Fang Feng
防風 방풍 · Siler

80 g
Deputy 臣

2 nyang
Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

80 g
Deputy 臣

2 nyang
Jigak Zhi Qiao
枳殼 지각 · Bitter Orange

80 g
Deputy 臣

2 nyang
Ju Jiu
酒 주 · Wine

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Envoy 使

wine paste for binding; rice water as draught

Total 560 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 five piles and all piles

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Heat in the large intestine — bleeding piles

Biomedical correlates

Haemorrhoids with bleeding

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治五痔及諸痔. 槐角四兩, 地楡ㆍ黃芩ㆍ防風ㆍ當歸ㆍ枳殼各二兩. 右爲末, 酒糊和丸梧子大, 空心米飮下五七十丸. 《局方》

Translation

Treats the five piles and all piles. Sophora fruit 4 nyang; sanguisorba, scutellaria, saposhnikovia, angelica and bitter orange 2 nyang each. Powder them, bind with wine paste into pills the size of a firmiana seed, and take fifty to seventy with rice water on an empty stomach. — Hwaje Gukbang 局方 (Donguibogam · Huieum)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Sophora fruit at four nyang heads the formula, and it heads this chapter: it appears in more than twenty of the eighty preparations here. It is still the base prescription for bleeding haemorrhoids under this name. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.