Cassia, Poria and Sweet Dew Drink

Gyeryeong-gamro-eum

한글 계령감로음 · Pinyin Gui Ling Gan Lu Yin

桂苓甘露飮

Composition 構成

Hwalseok Hua Shi
滑石 활석 · Talc

80 g
Chief 君
Seokgo Shi Gao
石膏 석고 · Gypsum

40 g
Chief 君
Hansuseok Han Shui Shi
寒水石 한수석 · Glauberite

40 g
Chief 君
Jeokbokryeong Chi Fu Ling
赤茯苓 적복령 · Poria (red)

40 g
Deputy 臣
Taeksa Ze Xie
澤瀉 택사 · Alisma

40 g
Deputy 臣
Jeoryeong Zhu Ling
猪苓 저령 · Polyporus

20 g
Deputy 臣
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

20 g
Assistant 佐
Yukgye Rou Gui
肉桂 육계 · Cinnamon Bark

20 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

40 g
Envoy 使

Total 340 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 summerheat injury with vexing thirst and diarrhoea
Treats sudden turmoil disorder with vomiting and diarrhoea

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Summerheat with thirst and watery stool
Damp heat in the centre with vomiting and diarrhoea

Biomedical correlates

Heat exhaustion
Acute gastroenteritis with dehydration
Cholera

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治傷暑煩渴泄瀉, 或霍亂吐瀉. 滑石二兩, 赤茯苓ㆍ澤瀉ㆍ石膏ㆍ寒水石ㆍ甘草各一兩, 白朮ㆍ肉桂ㆍ猪苓各五錢. 右爲細末, 每二錢, 熱湯ㆍ冷水任下, 入蜜少許尤好, 薑湯尤妙. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats summerheat injury with vexing thirst and diarrhoea, or sudden turmoil disorder with vomiting and diarrhoea. Talc, 2 nyang; red poria, alisma, gypsum, calcitum and licorice, 1 nyang each; white atractylodes, cassia bark and polyporus, 5 don each. Grind fine and take 2 don each time in hot water or cold, as preferred; a little honey added is better still, and a ginger decoction is best of all. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Hejian's formula, and the one place in the chapter where the pharmacy and the physiology agree with modern practice. The three cooling minerals — talc, gypsum, calcitum — are given in quantity with licorice, and the instruction is to take it in water, hot or cold, with honey permitted. Mineral salts, sugar and water in a febrile patient losing fluid by vomiting and stool is oral rehydration, arrived at six centuries before the formula was named. The cassia bark is there to keep the cold drugs from stopping the stomach, which is the tradition's own correction to the same problem. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.