Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)
Scrophularia and Cimicifuga Decoction
Hyeonsamseungma-tang
한글 현삼승마탕 · Pinyin Xuan Shen Sheng Ma Tang
玄參升麻湯
Composition 構成
- Hyeonsam玄參 현삼 · Scrophularia12 g
Chief 君3 don
- Seungma升麻 승마 · Cimicifuga12 g
Chief 君3 don
- Gamcho甘草 감초 · Licorice12 g
Envoy 使3 don
Total 36 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.
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Actions 效能
- Treats cold-damage macular eruption with agitation and restlessness
- delirious speech
- and the throat closed and painful
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Macular eruption with sore throat and delirium
Biomedical correlates
- Scarlatiniform rash with pharyngitis
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治傷寒發癍, 煩躁譫語, 咽喉閉痛. 玄參ㆍ升麻ㆍ甘草 各三錢. 右剉作一貼, 煎服. 《入門》
Translation
Treats cold-damage macular eruption with agitation and restlessness, delirious speech, and the throat closed and painful. Scrophularia, cimicifuga and licorice 3 don each. Cut up as one packet and decoct. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Pi)
Clinical commentary 臨床
Three medicinals in equal weight and nothing else — the simplest formula in the chapter and the one still worth using. Cimicifuga lifts and vents the rash out, scrophularia cools the blood and opens the throat, licorice holds the pair; a rash with a closing throat is the picture it was written for, and that picture has a modern name. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.