Formulas · Transform Phlegm 化痰 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Sea Hare and Indigo Pill

Haecheong-hwan

한글 해청환 · Pinyin Hai Qing Wan

海靑丸

Composition 構成

Haebun Hai Fen
海粉 해분 · Sea Hare Egg Mass

40 g
Chief 君
Cheongdae Qing Dai
靑黛 청대 · Natural Indigo

12 g
Deputy 臣
Hwanggeum Huang Qin
黃芩 황금 · Scutellaria

8 g
Assistant 佐
Singok Shen Qu
神麴 신곡 · Medicated Leaven

20 g
Envoy 使

part used as paste for the pills

Total 80 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 phlegm accumulation with diarrhoea

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Phlegm accumulation in the intestines with a loose stool
Phlegm heat diarrhoea

Biomedical correlates

Mucous diarrhoea
Irritable bowel syndrome with mucus

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治痰積泄瀉. 海粉一兩, 靑黛三錢, 黃芩二錢, 神麴五錢. 右爲末, 別以神麴作糊和丸梧子大, 空心, 白湯下二三十丸. 《入門》

Translation

Treats phlegm accumulation with diarrhoea. Sea hare egg mass, 1 nyang; natural indigo, 3 don; scutellaria, 2 don; medicated leaven, 5 don. Powder, and with more medicated leaven made into a paste form pills the size of a paulownia seed; take twenty or thirty on an empty stomach in plain hot water. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Phlegm diarrhoea is the chapter's category for a stool heavy with mucus, and the formula treats it with the phlegm pharmacy rather than the bowel pharmacy: sea hare egg mass and indigo, both cold, with scutellaria and leaven. The observation behind the category is good — mucus in the stool is a distinct finding that calls for a different reading — even though nothing here reduces mucus secretion. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.