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Ailanthus and Phellodendron Pill

Jeobaek-hwan

한글 저백환  ·  Pinyin Chu Bai Wan

樗柏丸

Composition 構成

Total 244 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Damp heat with phlegm fire — turbid urine

Biomedical correlates

  • Chyluria
  • Urethral discharge

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治濕熱痰火, 小便濁. 黃柏<span class='sochu'>降火</span> 三兩, 樗根白皮<span class='sochu'>澁腸</span> 一兩, 靑黛<span class='sochu'>解鬱</span>ㆍ乾薑<span class='sochu'>斂肺下氣</span> 各三錢, 滑石<span class='sochu'>利竅</span>ㆍ蛤粉<span class='sochu'>入腎</span>ㆍ神麴<span class='sochu'>燥濕</span> 各五錢. 右爲末, 神麴糊和丸梧子大, 空心白湯下五七十丸. 《入門》

Translation

Treats damp heat with phlegm fire and turbid urine. Phellodendron <span class='sochu'>downbears fire</span> 3 nyang; ailanthus root bark <span class='sochu'>astringes the bowel</span> 1 nyang; indigo <span class='sochu'>resolves depression</span> and dried ginger <span class='sochu'>gathers the lung and downbears qi</span> 3 don each; talc <span class='sochu'>frees the orifices</span>, clam shell powder <span class='sochu'>enters the kidney</span> and medicated leaven <span class='sochu'>dries damp</span> 5 don each. Powder them, bind with leaven paste into pills the size of a firmiana seed, and take fifty to seventy on an empty stomach with plain hot water. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Sobyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Every ingredient carries its reason in an interlinear note — the Immun explaining its own formula as it writes it, which is rare. Ailanthus root bark is the astringent the turbidity formulas keep coming back to. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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