Cassia and Poria Sweet Dew Powder

Gyeryeong-gamno-san

한글 계령감로산 · Pinyin Gui Ling Gan Lu San

桂苓甘露散

Registered separately from <a href='/formulas/gyeryeonggamro-eum'>桂苓甘露飮</a>, the formula of the same family in the 暑熱煩渴 section, whose composition is shorter and has no ginseng, pueraria, agastache or costus.

Composition 構成

Hwalseok Hua Shi
滑石 활석 · Talc

40 g
Chief 君
Seokgo Shi Gao
石膏 석고 · Gypsum

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

20 g
Chief 君
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

10 g
Chief 君
Taeksa Ze Xie
澤瀉 택사 · Alisma

20 g
Deputy 臣
Galgeun Ge Gen
葛根 갈근 · Kudzu Root

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

20 g
Deputy 臣
Jeokbongnyeong Chi Fu Ling
赤茯苓 적복령 · Poria (red)

20 g
Deputy 臣
Yukgye Rou Gui
肉桂 육계 · Cinnamon Bark

10 g
Assistant 佐
Gwakhyang Huo Xiang
藿香 곽향 · Korean Mint

10 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

20 g
Envoy 使
Mokhyang Mu Xiang
木香 목향 · Costus Root

5 g
Envoy 使

Total 215 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 latent summerheat with drinking and diarrhoea
Clears heat and drains water while supporting the qi with aromatics

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Latent summerheat damp heat with diarrhoea and thirst
Damp heat with the spleen qi failing

Biomedical correlates

Heat exhaustion with diarrhoea
Summer enteritis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治伏暑引飮ㆍ泄利. 滑石一兩, 石膏ㆍ寒水石ㆍ澤瀉ㆍ乾葛ㆍ白朮ㆍ赤茯苓ㆍ甘草各五錢, 人參ㆍ桂皮ㆍ藿香各二錢半, 木香一錢二分半. 右爲末, 每二錢, 白湯調下. 《子和》

Translation

Treats latent summerheat with drinking and diarrhoea. Talc, 1 nyang; gypsum, calcite, alisma, pueraria, atractylodes, red poria and licorice, 5 don each; ginseng, cassia bark and agastache, 2 don 5 fun each; costus, 1 don 2 fun 5 ri. Powder; 2 don each time, taken stirred into plain hot water. — Jahwa 子和 (Donguibogam · Seo)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Zhang Zihe's enlargement of the sweet-dew formula, and the additions are what make it worth distinguishing from its shorter namesake: ginseng, cassia, agastache and costus, which is a whole aromatic and qi-supporting layer set on top of three cooling minerals. The reasoning fits the indication — latent summerheat with diarrhoea is damp heat in a patient whose spleen has already given way, so cooling alone would worsen it. Taken as a powder in hot water rather than decocted, which is how the mineral-heavy formulas of this chapter were usually dispensed. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.