Formulas · Drain Dampness 利水滲濕 · Taepyeong Hyemin Hwaje Gukbang (太平惠民和劑局方)

Resolve Summerheat Three Whites Powder

Haeseo-sambaek-san

한글 해서삼백산 · Pinyin Jie Shu San Bai San

解暑三白散

The three whites of the name are the three drugs, all of them pale in colour.

Composition 構成

Taeksa Ze Xie
澤瀉 택사 · Alisma

8 g
Chief 君
Baekbongnyeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

8 g
Chief 君
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

8 g
Deputy 臣
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

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Envoy 使

three slices
Deungsimcho Deng Xin Cao
燈心草 등심초 · Rush Pith

—
Envoy 使

twenty stalks

Total 24 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 2 ingredients 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 summerheat with excessive drinking leading to vomiting and diarrhoea
Drains the water that is standing

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Water rheum from excessive drinking with vomiting and diarrhoea
Summerheat damp in the middle burner

Biomedical correlates

Water intoxication
Acute gastroenteritis after overdrinking

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治暑熱引飮過多, 致吐瀉. 澤瀉ㆍ白茯苓ㆍ白朮各二錢. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑三片, 燈心二十莖, 水煎服. 《局方》

Translation

Treats summerheat with drinking in excess leading to vomiting and diarrhoea. Alisma, poria and atractylodes, 2 don each. Cut up, make one packet, add three slices of ginger and twenty stalks of juncus pith, and decoct in water. — Gukbang 局方 (Donguibogam · Seo)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Three drugs in equal measure and the shortest formula in the chapter. The indication is precise and easy to miss: it is not the heat that is being treated but the drinking — a patient who has taken in far more water than he can absorb and is now vomiting it and passing it. The juncus pith is the one addition and leads the water out through the urine. For water intoxication, which happens in heat work and endurance exertion and is still misread as dehydration, draining rather than replacing is the right instinct. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.