Formulas · Purge Downward 瀉下 · Seui Deukhyobang (世醫得效方)

Schizonepeta and Rhubarb Decoction

Hyeonghwang-tang

한글 형황탕 · Pinyin Jing Huang Tang

荊黃湯

A formula of the same name from the Uihak Immun, built on the same two herbs at 4 don of schizonepeta to 1 don of rhubarb for a sore throat with constipation, is registered separately as hyeonghwang-tang.

Composition 構成

Daehwang Da Huang
大黃 대황 · Rhubarb

80 g
Chief 君
Hyeonggae Jing Jie
荊芥 형개 · Schizonepeta

160 g
Deputy 臣

Total 240 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

Washes out repletion heat and heat in the blood and accumulated heat of the viscera and bowels
Treats the sores and boils that wind heat engenders

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Wind heat engendering sores and boils
Accumulated heat of the viscera and bowels

Biomedical correlates

Furunculosis with heat signs
Boils and skin abscesses

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

大黃, 蕩滌實熱ㆍ血熱及藏府積熱. ○又治風熱生瘡癤. 大黃二兩ㆍ荊芥四兩, 水煎服, 名荊黃湯. 《得效》

Translation

Rhubarb washes out repletion heat, heat in the blood, and accumulated heat of the viscera and bowels. ○ It also treats sores and boils engendered by wind heat: rhubarb 2 nyang and schizonepeta 4 nyang, decocted in water and taken. It is called Hyeonghwang-tang. — Deukhyo 得效 (Donguibogam · Hwa)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The same two herbs as the Immun's formula of this name, in different weights and for a different complaint — twice as much rhubarb here, and the indication moved from the throat to the skin. The logic is the chapter's: a boil is heat that has found its way out, so purge the heat and scatter what remains at the surface. Rhubarb in these amounts is a purgative and will act as one. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.