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Phellodendron Pill

Hwangbaek-hwan

한글 황백환 · Pinyin Huang Bai Wan

黃柏丸

Single-herb pill: phellodendron fried to a brown color, powdered, bound with water; taken on an empty stomach. Also called Daebo-hwan — the Great Supplementation Pill.

Composition 構成

Hwangbaek Huang Bai
黃柏 황백 · Phellodendron

40 g
Chief 君 fried to brown

Total 40 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

Removes the Kidney channel's fire and dries the lower burner's damp
Quells the Yin fire that rises from below the navel

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Kidney-channel fire (腎經火)
Damp of the lower burner
Yin fire arising from below the navel (陰火氣從臍下起)

Biomedical correlates

Lower-body heat presentations
Urogenital-region inflammatory complaints
Rising-heat sensations from the lower abdomen

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

去腎經火, 燥下焦濕, 及陰火氣從臍下起者. 黃柏一味(炒褐色), 爲末水丸, 服之空心. 一名大補丸. 《入門》《正傳》

Translation

Removes the Kidney channel's fire, dries the damp of the lower burner, and treats the Yin fire whose Qi rises from below the navel. Phellodendron, a single flavor, fried to a brown color, powdered and bound with water into pills; taken on an empty stomach. Also called Daebo-hwan. — Immun 入門 · Jeongjeon 正傳 (Donguibogam · Hwa)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The bottom of the five-phase set, and the one with the paradoxical alias — a pure fire-drainer that tradition also calls the Great Supplementation Pill, because in the kidney's economy quelling the fire is saving the water. The chapter's whole vacuous-fire doctrine folded into a nickname. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.