Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Seui Deukhyobang (世醫得效方)
Cinnabar and Coptis Pill
Jusahwangryeon-won
한글 주사황련원 · Pinyin Zhu Sha Huang Lian Yuan
Pill formula, bulk amounts: powdered and bound with honey into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; 30–50 pills swallowed with a decoction of rush pith and jujube. Note on modern practice: cinnabar (朱砂, mercuric sulfide) is restricted in contemporary U.S. practice; the formula is shown as recorded, for textual fidelity.
Composition 構成
- Hwangryeon黃連 황련 · Coptis120 g
Chief 君 - Saengjihwang生地黃 생지황 · Raw Rehmannia80 g
Deputy 臣 dried (生乾) - Jusa朱砂 주사 · Cinnabar (toxic)40 g
Assistant 佐
Total 240 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 Heart fire banked by habitual drinking
- Enriches Yin and quiets the spirit to relieve drinker's thirst
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Wasting-thirst formed by devoted drinking (酣飮成消渴)
- Heart fire with restlessness in drinkers
- Thirst with disturbed sleep and vexation
Biomedical correlates
- Alcohol-associated thirst with insomnia or agitation
- Heat-predominant presentations in chronic drinkers
- Historical mineral formula — see modern-practice note
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治酣飮成消渴. 黃連 三兩, 生乾地黃 二兩, 朱砂 一兩. 右爲末, 蜜丸梧子大. 燈心棗湯, 呑下三五十丸. 《得效》
Translation
Treats wasting-thirst formed by devoted drinking. Coptis 3 nyang; dried raw rehmannia 2 nyang; cinnabar 1 nyang. Powder the above and bind with honey into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; swallow 30–50 pills with a decoction of rush pith and jujube. — Deukhyo 得效 (Donguibogam · Sogal)