Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Lycium Root Bark Powder

Jigolpi-san

한글 지골피산 · Pinyin Di Gu Pi San

地骨皮散

Cut and made into one packet with 3 slices of ginger, decocted and taken.

Composition 構成

Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

6 g
Chief 君
Jigolpi Di Gu Pi
地骨皮 지골피 · Lycium Root Bark

6 g
Chief 君
Siho Chai Hu
柴胡 시호 · Bupleurum

6 g
Deputy 臣
Saengjihwang Sheng Di Huang
生地黃 생지황 · Raw Rehmannia

6 g
Deputy 臣
Hwanggi Huang Qi
黃芪 황기 · Astragalus

6 g
Deputy 臣
Jimo Zhi Mu
知母 지모 · Anemarrhena

4 g
Assistant 佐
Seokgo Shi Gao
石膏 석고 · Gypsum

4 g
Assistant 佐
Jeokbokryeong Chi Fu Ling
赤茯苓 적복령 · Poria (red)

2 g
Assistant 佐
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

6 g
Envoy 使 3 slices

Total 46 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 a lung heat that has spread to the whole body
Cools the construction while the cold lodged in the viscera is met

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Lung heat (治肺熱)
Blood heat and Yang toxin blazing with the whole body vigorously hot
Cold accumulated in the viscera with heat in the construction — the pulse insufficient on pressing and superabundant on lifting

Biomedical correlates

Fever with respiratory involvement
Mixed hot-and-cold presentations
Febrile illness with weakness

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治肺熱. 人參ㆍ地骨皮ㆍ柴胡ㆍ生地黃ㆍ黃芪各一錢半, 知母ㆍ石膏各一錢, 赤茯苓五分. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑三片煎服. 又治藏中積冷, 榮中熱, 脉按不足, 擧有餘, 乃陽有餘陰不足也. 《入門》

Translation

Treats lung heat. Ginseng, lycium root bark, bupleurum, raw rehmannia, and astragalus, 1.5 don each; anemarrhena and gypsum, 1 don each; red poria 5 fun. Cut the above, make one packet, add 3 slices of ginger, decoct and take. It also treats cold accumulated within the viscera with heat within the construction, the pulse insufficient when pressed and superabundant when lifted — this being Yang in surplus and Yin insufficient. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Hwa)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The second indication is the interesting one — cold accumulated in the viscera with heat in the construction, recognized by a pulse that is insufficient when pressed and superabundant when the finger lifts. The chapter's gloss: Yang in surplus and Yin insufficient. Hence a formula that puts ginseng and astragalus beside gypsum and anemarrhena, which looks contradictory until you read the pulse description that justifies it. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.