Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Gogeum Uigam (古今醫鑑)
Jade Spring Powder
Okcheon-san
한글 옥천산 · Pinyin Yu Quan San
玉泉散
Composition 構成
- Cheonhwabun天花粉 천화분 · Trichosanthes Root8 g
Chief 君 - Galgeun葛根 갈근 · Kudzu Root4 g
Deputy 臣 - Maekmundong麥門冬 맥문동 · Liriope4 g
Deputy 臣 - Saengjihwang生地黃 생지황 · Raw Rehmannia4 g
Deputy 臣 - Omija五味子 오미자 · Schisandra4 g
Assistant 佐 - Nami糯米 나미 · Glutinous Rice20 g
Envoy 使 1 hop (一合) - Gamcho甘草 감초 · Licorice4 g
Envoy 使
Total 48 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 — a sagely thirst medicine
- Moistens the Lung and Stomach with grain-anchored cooling
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Wasting-thirst (消渴) generally
- Heat with fluid damage and dry mouth
- Thirst needing sustained gentle treatment
Biomedical correlates
- Polydipsia in diabetes and prediabetes
- Chronic dry mouth
- Thirst in febrile convalescence
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治消渴之聖藥. 天花粉 二錢, 粉葛ㆍ麥門冬ㆍ生地黃ㆍ五味子ㆍ甘草 各一錢. 右剉, 作一貼, 糯米一合煎服. 《醫鑑》
Translation
A sagely medicine for treating wasting-thirst. Trichosanthes root 2 don; kudzu root, ophiopogon, raw rehmannia, schisandra, and licorice, 1 don each. Cut the above, make one packet, add 1 hop of glutinous rice, decoct and take. — Uigam 醫鑑 (Donguibogam · Sogal)
Clinical commentary 臨床
The jade spring is the mouth's own — this formula's whole ambition is to make the patient's saliva return, a handful of glutinous rice giving the cleared heat something to condense on. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.