Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Donguibogam · Hwa

Ginseng Clear the Flesh Powder

Insamcheonggi-san

한글 인삼청기산 · Pinyin Ren Shen Qing Ji San

人參淸肌散

Cut and made into one packet with 3 slices of ginger and 2 jujubes, decocted in water and taken.

Composition 構成

Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

4 g
Chief 君
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

4 g
Deputy 臣
Baekbokryeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

4 g
Deputy 臣
Jeokjakyak Chi Shao
赤芍藥 적작약 · Red Peony

4 g
Deputy 臣
Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

4 g
Deputy 臣
Siho Chai Hu
柴胡 시호 · Bupleurum

4 g
Assistant 佐
Galgeun Ge Gen
葛根 갈근 · Kudzu Root

4 g
Assistant 佐
Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

4 g
Assistant 佐 leaven (麴)
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

6 g
Envoy 使 3 slices
Daejo Da Zao
大棗 대조 · Jujube

4 g
Envoy 使 2 pieces
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

2 g
Envoy 使

Total 44 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

Clears the steaming-bone heat of taxation without sweating the patient
Courses and supplements together where there is no sweat to be had

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Vacuity taxation with steaming-bone heat (虛勞骨蒸)
Tidal heat without sweating (潮熱無汗)
Chronic fever in the depleted with a closed surface

Biomedical correlates

Chronic low-grade fever with fatigue
Afternoon fevers without sweating
Post-illness febrile states

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治虛勞骨蒸, 潮熱無汗. 人參ㆍ白朮ㆍ白茯苓ㆍ赤芍藥ㆍ當歸ㆍ柴胡ㆍ葛根ㆍ半夏麴各一錢, 甘草五分. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑三棗二, 水煎服.

Translation

Treats vacuity taxation with steaming-bone heat, and tidal heat without sweating. Ginseng, white atractylodes, white poria, red peony, Korean angelica, bupleurum, kudzu root, and pinellia leaven, 1 don each; licorice 5 fun. Cut the above, make one packet, add 3 slices of ginger and 2 jujubes, decoct in water and take. — Donguibogam · Hwa

Clinical commentary 臨床

The specification in the indication is the whole design: tidal heat *without sweat*. A depleted patient whose surface will not open cannot be treated by clearing alone, so bupleurum and kudzu root are added to course outward while the Four Gentlemen supply what is short. The chapter's standing formula for the chronic afternoon fever of the worn-out, and it appears again in the tidal-heat decision table of this same chapter. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.