Resolve the Clenched Mouth Pill

Haegeum-hwan

한글 해금환 · Pinyin Jie Jin Wan

解噤丸

Composition 構成

Hwangryeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

320 g
Chief 君

cut up and stir-fried with sliced ginger until scorched, the ginger then discarded
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

160 g
Envoy 使

sliced
Jinchangmi Chen Cang Mi
陳倉米 진창미 · Aged Granary Rice

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Envoy 使

aged cooked rice

Total 480 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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 the clenched-mouth dysentery

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Stomach heat with refusal of food in dysentery

Biomedical correlates

Dysentery with intractable vomiting

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治噤口痢. 黃連八兩, 剉; 生薑四兩, 切, 同炒令焦, 去薑, 只取黃連爲末, 陳米飯和丸梧子大. 每服七八十丸, 赤痢陳米飮下, 白痢橘皮湯下, 赤白痢陳米ㆍ橘皮湯下. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats the clenched-mouth dysentery. Coptis, 8 nyang, cut up; fresh ginger, 4 nyang, sliced. Stir-fry them together until scorched, discard the ginger, powder the coptis alone, and make pills with aged cooked rice the size of a paulownia seed. Take seventy or eighty each time: for red dysentery in aged rice water, for white dysentery in a tangerine-peel decoction, and for red and white dysentery in a decoction of aged rice and tangerine peel. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The same ginger-fried coptis as the Hyanggang-san earlier, in eight times the quantity and made into pills, with the vehicle changed according to whether the stool is red, white or mixed. Pills are the right form for a vomiting patient — nothing to taste, nothing to smell — and the three vehicles let one preparation serve three diagnoses, which is this chapter's favourite economy. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.