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Jade Spring Pill

Okcheon-hwan

한글 옥천환  ·  Pinyin Yu Quan Wan

玉泉丸

Pill formula, bulk amounts: powdered and bound with honey into pills the size of crossbow pellets (彈子大); one pill at a time, chewed down with warm water. Same family, different form (同名近似方): the decoction version is Okcheon-san 玉泉散 above.

Composition 構成

Total 360 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

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Wasting-thirst with dry mouth (消渴口乾)
  • Fluid damage needing slow steady treatment
  • Thirst between formal doses of decoction

Biomedical correlates

  • Chronic dry mouth in diabetes
  • Xerostomia in the elderly or medicated patients
  • Maintenance therapy between acute treatments

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治消渴, 口乾. 天花粉ㆍ乾葛 各一兩半, 麥門冬ㆍ人參ㆍ白茯苓ㆍ黃芪(半生半蜜炒)ㆍ烏梅ㆍ甘草 各一兩. 右爲末, 蜜丸彈子大. 每一丸, 溫水嚼下. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats wasting-thirst with dry mouth. Trichosanthes root and kudzu root, 1.5 nyang each; ophiopogon, ginseng, white poria, astragalus (half raw, half honey-fried), mume plum, and licorice, 1 nyang each. Powder the above and bind with honey into pills the size of crossbow pellets. Chew one pill down with warm water each time. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Sogal)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The jade spring carried in a pocket — a crossbow-pellet pill to be chewed slowly whenever the mouth dries, turning the day's every thirst into a dose. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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