Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Bomyeongjip (保命集)

Chinaberry Fruit Pill

Goryeon-hwan

한글 고련환 · Pinyin Ku Lian Wan

苦練丸

Given as 各等分 with no absolute weights; grams entered at 40 each as a notional equal share. Source annotation 《保命》 refers to the Sumun Byeonggi Gibo Jip 素問病機氣宜保命集 of Liu Wansu 劉完素.

Composition 構成

Goryeonja Ku Lian Zi
苦練子 고련자 · Chinaberry Fruit (toxic)

40 g
Chief 君

broken and wine-steeped (碎酒浸) · toxic
Hoehyang Hui Xiang
茴香 회향 · Fennel Fruit

40 g
Deputy 臣

stir-fried (炒); equal parts
Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

40 g
Deputy 臣

Total 120 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

Clears heat that has entered the intestines
Stops red and white discharge

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Heat entering the large and small intestines
becoming red and white vaginal discharge

Biomedical correlates

Vaginal discharge with inflammation
Cervicitis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治熱入大小腸, 爲赤白帶下, 最妙. 苦練子(碎酒浸)ㆍ茴香(炒)ㆍ當歸各等分. 右爲末, 酒糊和丸梧子大, 每取三五十丸, 空心, 溫酒下. 《保命》

Translation

Treats heat entering the large and small intestines, becoming red and white vaginal discharge; most excellent. Chinaberry fruit (broken and wine-steeped), fennel (stir-fried) and angelica in equal parts. Powder them, make wine-paste pills the size of a firmiana seed, and take thirty to fifty on an empty stomach with warm wine. — Bomyeongjip 保命 (Donguibogam · Po)

Clinical commentary 臨床

熱入大小腸 — heat entering the large and small intestines — locates the cause of discharge in the bowel rather than in the womb. That is a specific claim, and it is why a chinaberry formula appears here: chinaberry fruit is the tradition's medicinal for damp heat in the lower burner and for parasites, both of which sit in the gut. **Chinaberry fruit is toxic; overdose causes hepatic and neurological injury. Persistent discharge requires medical assessment — infection and cervical disease must be excluded.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.