Formulas · Transform Phlegm 化痰 · Dangye Simbeop (丹溪心法)

Sea Blue Pill

Haecheong-hwan

한글 해청환 · Pinyin Hai Qing Wan

海靑丸

A different formula from the Immun 海靑丸 of the diarrhoea chapter, which is sea-hare powder, indigo, scutellaria and leaven for phlegm-accumulation diarrhoea. The two share the sea drug and the indigo of the name.

Composition 構成

Gaja He Zi
訶子 가자 · Chebula

40 g
Chief 君

the peel (訶子皮)
Hapbun Ge Fen
蛤粉 합분 · Clamshell Powder

40 g
Deputy 臣

海蛤粉, clam shell powder
Gwaruin Gua Lou Ren
瓜蔞仁 과루인 · Trichosanthes Seed

40 g
Deputy 臣
Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

40 g
Deputy 臣

processed (製) · toxic in the raw state
Cheongdae Qing Dai
靑黛 청대 · Natural Indigo

40 g
Assistant 佐
Hyangbuja Xiang Fu
香附子 향부자 · Cyperus

40 g
Assistant 佐

soaked in a boy's urine (便香附)
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

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Envoy 使

the juice, for soaking the steamed cake

Total g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Treats fire depression cough
and lung distension with hurried qi and heavy breathing

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Fire depression cough with sticky phlegm
Lung distension with hurried breathing

Biomedical correlates

Chronic obstructive cough with wheeze — historical treatment

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治火鬱嗽及肺脹氣急息重. 訶子皮ㆍ海蛤粉ㆍ瓜蔞仁ㆍ靑黛ㆍ半夏(製)ㆍ便香附各一兩. 右爲末, 以薑汁浸蒸餠和丸菉豆大, 薑湯下三五十丸. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats fire depression cough, and lung distension with hurried qi and heavy breathing. Chebule peel, clam shell powder, trichosanthes seed, indigo, processed pinellia and cyperus soaked in a boy's urine, 1 nyang each. Grind to a powder, make pills the size of a mung bean with steamed cake soaked in ginger juice, and give thirty to fifty down with ginger decoction. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Haesu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Garyeoreuk-hwan made into small pills, with clam shell powder in place of the sea-hare powder and processed pinellia added — the same six-drug design, swallowed instead of sucked. Where the lozenge was for the throat, this is for the chest: 肺脹氣急息重, lung distension with hurried heavy breathing, is a wheeze rather than a cough. 火鬱, depressed fire, is the chapter's name for a cough in which the heat cannot get out, and the formula treats it by opening with cyperus and pinellia while cooling with indigo — not by draining the fire directly, which is the usual move. **Contains pinellia, which is toxic in the raw state and must be properly processed.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.