Peony and Phellodendron Bark Pill

Jakyak-baekpi-hwan

한글 작약백피환 · Pinyin Shao Yao Bai Pi Wan

芍藥栢皮丸

Composition 構成

Baekjakyak Bai Shao
白芍藥 백작약 · White Peony

40 g
Chief 君
Hwangbaek Huang Bai
黃柏 황백 · Phellodendron

40 g
Chief 君
Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

20 g
Deputy 臣
Hwangryeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

20 g
Deputy 臣

Total 120 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Treats damp heat with a malign dysentery passing pus and blood

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Damp heat in the intestinal blood
Malign dysentery

Biomedical correlates

Bacillary dysentery
Ulcerative colitis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治濕熱惡痢, 下膿血. 白芍藥ㆍ黃栢皮各一兩, 當歸ㆍ黃連各五錢. 右爲末, 水丸小豆大, 溫水下三四十丸. 《子和》

Translation

Treats damp heat with a malign dysentery passing pus and blood. White peony and phellodendron bark, 1 nyang each; tangkuei and coptis, 5 don each. Powder, make water pills the size of an adzuki bean, and take thirty or forty in warm water. — Jahwa 子和 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Four drugs in a two-to-one ratio, made up as small water pills — the pill form matters, because a patient passing blood forty times a day cannot keep down decoctions. Peony and tangkuei for the blood, phellodendron and coptis for the heat, and nothing to bind: Jahwa's position throughout is that a dysentery must be cleared, not stopped. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.