Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)
Twice-Fried Atractylodes and Phellodendron Powder
Ichochangbaek-san
한글 이초창백산 · Pinyin Er Chao Cang Bai San
Cut; take 5 don decocted in water, or bind with water into pills and take. Also called Changchul-san; made into pills it is called Imyo-hwan. The source's claim: a hundred uses, a hundred effects. This formula is referenced from the Lumbus chapter as well, for the replete type of damp heat lumbar pain.
Composition 構成
- Changchul蒼朮 창출 · Black Atractylodes160 g
Chief 君 soaked a day and night in rice water, then salt-fried - Hwangbaek黃柏 황백 · Phellodendron160 g
Chief 君 soaked a day and night in wine, then fried until scorched
Total 320 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.
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Actions 效能
- Clears damp heat from painful legs and knees with two herbs
- Answers the hot pain that arises between the bones of the foot
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Damp heat leg qi with painful legs and knees (濕熱脚氣 令足膝痛)
- Red swelling with hot pain between the foot bones
- A single point of it enough to make walking hard and to bring on wilting and lameness
Biomedical correlates
- Damp-heat leg and foot pain
- Inflammatory foot pain
- Walking difficulty from lower limb inflammation
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治濕熱脚氣, 令足膝痛, 或赤腫脚骨間作熱痛. 雖一點, 能令步履艱苦, 令人痿躄, 百用百效. 蒼朮(泔浸一日夜鹽炒)ㆍ黃柏(酒浸一日夜焦炒) 各四兩. 右剉, 五錢, 水煎服, 或水和丸服亦可. 《入門》 ○一名蒼朮散. 《得效》 ○作丸, 名二妙丸.
Translation
Treats damp heat leg qi, making the legs and knees painful, or with red swelling and hot pain arising between the bones of the foot. Even a single point of it can make walking hard and bring a person to wilting and lameness — a hundred uses, a hundred effects. Atractylodes soaked a day and night in rice water then salt-fried, and phellodendron soaked a day and night in wine then fried until scorched, 4 nyang each. Cut the above; take 5 don decocted in water, or bind with water into pills and take. Also called Changchul-san; made into pills, called Imyo-hwan. — Immun 入門 · Deukhyo 得效 (Donguibogam · Jok)