Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Gogeum Uigam (古今醫鑑)
Sophora and Coptis Pill
Goehwang-hwan
한글 괴황환 · Pinyin Huai Huang Wan
Composition 構成
- Goehwa槐花 괴화 · Pagoda Tree Flower160 g
Chief 君stir-fried (炒), 4 nyang
- Hwangryeon黃連 황련 · Coptis160 g
Chief 君wine-fried (酒炒), 4 nyang
- Jeojang猪腸 저장 · Pig's Intestine—
Envoy 使猪大腸, a cheok of pig's large intestine to hold the powder
- Gu韭 구 · Chinese Chive—
Envoy 使韭菜, 2 geun of leek, boiled with it and discarded
- Mitang米湯 미탕 · Rice Water—
Envoy 使rice water as the draught
Total 320 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 3 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.
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Actions 效能
- Treats intestinal wind
- visceral toxin
- fistulous piles and blood in the stool — divinely effective
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Intestinal wind with piles and bleeding
Biomedical correlates
- Haemorrhoidal bleeding
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治腸風ㆍ臟毒ㆍ痔漏ㆍ便血神效. 槐花(炒)ㆍ黃連(酒炒) 各四兩. 右爲末, 入猪大腸 一尺內, 托住, 用韭菜 二斤, 水同煮爛, 去韭取腸, 藥爛搗丸如梧子大, 空心米飮下八九十丸. 《醫鑑》
Translation
Treats intestinal wind, visceral toxin, fistulous piles and blood in the stool — divinely effective. Sophora flower (stir-fried) and coptis (wine-fried) 4 nyang each. Powder them, put the powder into a cheok of pig's large intestine and tie it off; boil it soft in water with 2 geun of leek, discard the leek, take the intestine, pound it with the medicine until soft and make pills the size of a firmiana seed; take eighty or ninety with rice water on an empty stomach. — Gogeum Uigam 醫鑑 (Donguibogam · Hueum)