Formulas · Transform Phlegm 化痰 · Dangye Simbeop (丹溪心法)

Coptis Transform Phlegm Pill

Hwangnyeonhwadam-hwan

한글 황련화담환 · Pinyin Huang Lian Hua Tan Wan

黃連化痰丸

Composition 構成

Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

60 g
Chief 君

processed · toxic in the raw state
Hwangnyeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

6 g
Chief 君
Osuyu Wu Zhu Yu
吳茱萸 오수유 · Evodia

6 g
Deputy 臣
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

20 g
Assistant 佐

Total 92 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Treats heat phlegm with cough

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Heat phlegm with sour regurgitation and cough

Biomedical correlates

Cough with gastro-oesophageal reflux

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治熱痰咳嗽. 黃連ㆍ吳茱萸各一錢半, 陳皮五錢, 半夏一兩半. 右爲末, 薑汁糊和丸菉豆大, 薑湯呑下一百丸. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats heat phlegm with cough. Coptis and evodia, 1 don 5 fun each; tangerine peel, 5 don; pinellia, 1 nyang 5 don. Grind to a powder, make pills the size of a mung bean with a ginger juice paste, and swallow a hundred pills down with ginger decoction. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Haesu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Coptis with evodia in equal weight is the Jwageum pair, the tradition's combination for sour regurgitation, and its presence here says what kind of cough Dansim had in mind: one driven from the stomach rather than from the lung. The bulk of the formula is pinellia and tangerine peel — the Ijin-tang skeleton — so what the pill does is dry the phlegm while cooling the stomach beneath it. Cough caused by reflux is a modern commonplace, and a formula that pairs an antiemetic combination with a phlegm-drying one is a reasonable answer to it. **Contains pinellia, which is toxic in the raw state and must be properly processed.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.