Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Seui Deukhyobang (世醫得效方)

Azurite Formula

Gongcheong-won

한글 공청원 · Pinyin Kong Qing Yuan

空靑元

The source's first-edition collation notes 牧 for 牡 and 桅 for 梔 in this entry.

Composition 構成

Bangpung Fang Feng
防風 방풍 · Siler

80 g
Chief 君

2 nyang
Saengjihwang Sheng Di Huang
生地黃 생지황 · Raw Rehmannia

80 g
Chief 君

生乾地黃
Jimo Zhi Mu
知母 지모 · Anemarrhena

80 g
Deputy 臣

2 nyang
Omija Wu Wei Zi
五味子 오미자 · Schisandra

40 g
Deputy 臣

1 nyang
Chajeonja Che Qian Zi
車前子 차전자 · Plantago Seed

40 g
Deputy 臣

1 nyang
Seokgyeolmyeong Shi Jue Ming
石決明 석결명 · Abalone Shell

40 g
Assistant 佐

1 nyang
Gongcheong Kong Qing
空靑 공청 · Azurite (hollow)

8 g
Assistant 佐

2 don · toxic
Sesin Xi Xin
細辛 세신 · Asarum

40 g
Envoy 使

1 nyang

Total 408 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

Treats the sunken screen
which is seen only on close looking and is the deepest of the diseases

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Sunken screen of internal obstruction

Biomedical correlates

Posterior cataract
Deep corneal opacity

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治沉瞖, 細看方見, 其病最深. 防風ㆍ生乾地黃ㆍ知母各二兩, 五味子ㆍ車前子ㆍ石決明ㆍ細辛各一兩, 空靑二錢. 右爲末, 蜜丸梧子大, 每十丸, 茶淸下, 空心. 《得效》

Translation

Treats the sunken screen, which is seen only on close looking and is the deepest of the diseases. Saposhnikovia, dried raw rehmannia and anemarrhena 2 nyang each; schisandra, plantago seed, abalone shell and asarum 1 nyang each; azurite 2 don. Powder them, make honey pills the size of parasol-tree seeds, and take ten on an empty stomach with clear tea. — Seui Deukhyobang 得效 (Donguibogam · An)

Clinical commentary 臨床

A sunken screen is the opacity you have to look closely to find, and the chapter calls it the deepest disease — so the formula is named for its smallest ingredient. Azurite at two don against eight nyang of everything else is a trace, and that is how a copper mineral was used: ten pills at a time, on an empty stomach, no more. **Contains azurite, a copper carbonate. Copper salts are toxic taken internally. This must not be prepared.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.