Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Donguibogam · Hueum

Loosen the Intestine Pill

Gwanjang-hwan

한글 관장환 · Pinyin Kuan Chang Wan

寬腸丸

Composition 構成

Hwangryeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

8 g
Chief 君

equal parts
Jigak Zhi Qiao
枳殼 지각 · Bitter Orange

8 g
Chief 君

equal parts
Mitang Mi Tang
米湯 미탕 · Rice Water

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Envoy 使

rice water as the draught

Total 16 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 piles with the stool bound and rough and painful — used to loosen the intestine

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Piles with constipation

Biomedical correlates

Haemorrhoids with constipation

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治痔大便秘澁痛, 用此寬腸. 黃連ㆍ枳殼等分. 右爲末, 麪糊和丸梧子大, 米飮下五十丸.

Translation

Treats piles with the stool bound, rough and painful; this is used to loosen the intestine. Coptis and bitter orange in equal parts. Powder them, bind with flour paste into pills the size of a firmiana seed, and take fifty with rice water. — Donguibogam · Hueum

Clinical commentary 臨床

Two medicinals, and 7.24's whole argument in miniature: the stool must be kept soft or nothing else in the chapter will hold. Every surgical and caustic measure here assumes it. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.