Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Coptis Supplement the Intestine Decoction

Hwangryeon-bojang-tang

한글 황련보장탕 · Pinyin Huang Lian Bu Chang Tang

黃連補腸湯

Composition 構成

Hwangryeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

16 g
Chief 君
Jeokbokryeong Chi Fu Ling
赤茯苓 적복령 · Poria (red)

12 g
Deputy 臣
Cheongung Chuan Xiong
川芎 천궁 · Cnidium

12 g
Deputy 臣
Jiyu Di Yu
地楡 지유 · Sanguisorba Root

20 g
Assistant 佐
Bongnyonggan Fu Long Gan
伏龍肝 복룡간 · Oven Earth

8 g
Assistant 佐
Sanseongnyupi Suan Shi Liu Pi
酸石榴皮 산석류피 · Sour Pomegranate Rind

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Assistant 佐

five pieces

Total 68 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 large intestine vacuous and cold with a dysentery passing blue-green and white

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Large intestine vacuity cold with mucus
Cold dysentery with residual heat

Biomedical correlates

Chronic dysentery
Mucous colitis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治大腸虛冷, 痢下靑白. 黃連四錢, 赤茯苓ㆍ川芎各三錢, 酸石榴皮五片, 地楡五錢, 伏龍肝二錢. 右剉八錢, 作一貼, 空心, 水煎服. 《入門》

Translation

Treats the large intestine vacuous and cold with a dysentery passing blue-green and white. Coptis, 4 don; red poria and chuanxiong, 3 don each; pomegranate rind, five pieces; sanguisorba, 5 don; hearth earth, 2 don. Cut up and take 8 don as one packet, decocted in water on an empty stomach. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The indication says vacuous and cold and the chief drug is the coldest in the pharmacy, which is the sort of contradiction this chapter is full of and which repays reading closely: the cold is the patient's constitution, the heat is in the bowel, and the formula clears the second while the earth and pomegranate hold the first. Hearth earth — the baked clay from under a cooking fire — is used throughout the tradition for a bleeding or leaking bowel, and as a warm adsorbent it is a reasonable counterweight to the coptis. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.