Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Dangye Simbeop (丹溪心法)

Coptis and Elsholtzia Powder

Hwangnyeon-hyangyu-san

한글 황련향유산 · Pinyin Huang Lian Xiang Ru San

黃連香薷散

沉冷服 — taken thoroughly cold — means the decoction is cooled before drinking, which the chapter specifies for several of its formulas.

Composition 構成

Hyangyu Xiang Ru
香薷 향유 · Elsholtzia

12 g
Chief 君
Hubak Hou Po
厚朴 후박 · Magnolia Bark

6 g
Deputy 臣
Hwangnyeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

3 g
Assistant 佐
Ju Jiu
酒 주 · Wine

—
Envoy 使

a little, added to the decoction

Total 21 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 summerheat stroke with heat and thirst
Taken thoroughly cold with a little wine

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Summerheat with heat and thirst
Damp heat in the stomach with thirst

Biomedical correlates

Heat exhaustion with thirst
Summer gastroenteritis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治中暑熱渴. 香薷三錢, 厚朴一錢半, 黃連七分半. 右剉, 作一貼, 入酒少許, 水煎, 沉冷服. ○一名黃連香薷飮. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats summerheat stroke with heat and thirst. Elsholtzia, 3 don; magnolia bark, 1 don 5 fun; coptis, 7 fun 5 ri. Cut up, make one packet, add a little wine, decoct in water and take thoroughly cold. Also called Hwangryeon-hyangyu-eum. — Dangye Simbeop 丹心 (Donguibogam · Seo)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Hyangyu-san with the hyacinth bean dropped and coptis put in, which is the standard way of turning the chapter's base formula toward heat. Three drugs in a two-to-one-to-half ratio and the instruction to drink it cold: the cooling is part of the prescription, not a nicety, and the little wine is there to carry the aromatics. Of the elsholtzia formulas this is the one for the patient who is thirsty rather than nauseated. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.