Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Dangye Simbeop (丹溪心法)

Trichosanthes, Apricot Kernel and Coptis Pill

Gwaruhaengnyeon-hwan

한글 과루행련환 · Pinyin Gua Lou Xing Lian Wan

瓜蔞杏連丸

Composition 構成

Gwaruin Gua Lou Ren
瓜蔞仁 과루인 · Trichosanthes Seed

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Chief 君

equal part
Hwangnyeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

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Chief 君

equal part
Haengin Xing Ren
杏仁 행인 · Apricot Kernel

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Deputy 臣

equal part
Jungnyeok Zhu Li
竹瀝 죽력 · Bamboo Sap

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Envoy 使

with ginger decoction, boiled into the paste for the pills

Total g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 4 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Treats the phlegm cough of drink

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Wine phlegm with cough
Damp heat in the lung from drinking

Biomedical correlates

Chronic cough in a heavy drinker

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治酒痰嗽. 瓜蔞仁ㆍ杏仁ㆍ黃連各等分. 右爲末, 以竹瀝ㆍ薑湯煮糊和丸服. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats the phlegm cough of drink. Trichosanthes seed, apricot kernel and coptis, in equal parts. Grind to a powder, make pills with a paste boiled with bamboo sap and ginger decoction, and take them. — Dangye Simbeop 丹心 (Donguibogam · Haesu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Three drugs in equal parts for the cough of a drinker: trichosanthes seed for the thick phlegm, apricot kernel to bring the lung qi down, coptis for the heat that the chapter says wine leaves behind. 酒嗽 is given its own sub-section at 3.6 with its own mechanism — wine's great heat meeting cold drink in the stomach and congealing into damp — and both of its formulas are built on this pattern of cutting phlegm and cooling at once. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.