Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Dangye Simbeop (丹溪心法)
Jade Spring Pill
Okcheon-hwan
한글 옥천환 · Pinyin Yu Quan Wan
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
- Cheonhwabun天花粉 천화분 · Trichosanthes Root60 g
Chief 君 - Galgeun葛根 갈근 · Kudzu Root60 g
Chief 君 - Maekmundong麥門冬 맥문동 · Liriope40 g
Deputy 臣 - Insam人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng40 g
Deputy 臣 - Baekbokryeong白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)40 g
Assistant 佐 - Hwanggi黃芪 황기 · Astragalus40 g
Assistant 佐 half raw, half honey-fried - Omae烏梅 오매 · Mume Plum40 g
Assistant 佐 - Gamcho甘草 감초 · Licorice40 g
Envoy 使
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
- Clears heat and engenders fluids in chewable sustained form
- Boosts Qi and restrains scattering to relieve dry mouth
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)