Formulas · Drain Dampness 利水滲濕 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)
Yellow Rice Pill
Hwangmi-hwan
한글 황미환 · Pinyin Huang Mi Wan
None of the three ingredients remains in the finished pill by weight; the rice alone is powdered, having been fried first with the loofah and then discarded. Gram figures are not given.
Composition 構成
- Jinchangmi陳倉米 진창미 · Aged Granary Rice—
Chief 君fried with it until yellow
- Geonsagwa乾絲瓜 건사과 · Dried Loofah—
Deputy 臣1 dried loofah, skinned and cut
- Padu巴豆 파두 · Croton Seed—
Assistant 佐14 kernels, fried yellow · toxic
Total 0 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 3 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
- Drives water from the skin in water gu
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Water gu (水蠱) with the abdomen swollen and hard
Biomedical correlates
- Ascites
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治水蠱. 乾絲瓜一棒, 去皮剪碎, 和巴豆肉 十四粒, 同炒以巴豆色黃爲度, 去巴豆, 入陳倉米, 如絲瓜之多少, 同炒米黃色去瓜, 取米爲末, 水丸梧子大. 每湯下百丸, 數服卽愈. 盖絲瓜如人脉絡, 引巴豆之氣入皮膚也. 《入門》
Translation
Treats water gu. One dried loofah, skin removed and cut small, fried together with fourteen croton kernels until the croton turns yellow; discard the croton. Add aged granary rice in the same quantity as the loofah, fry together until the rice yellows, and discard the loofah. Take the rice, powder it, and make water pills the size of a firmiana seed. Take a hundred at a time with hot water; after several doses the patient recovers. For the loofah is like the channels and network vessels of a person, and it draws the qi of croton into the skin. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Bujong)