Mume Pill (Hot Dysentery)

Omae-hwan

한글 오매환 (열리) · Pinyin Wu Mei Wan

烏梅丸

A different 烏梅丸 from the Sanghallon's ten-drug formula of the same name, which is registered separately.

Composition 構成

Hwangryeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

60 g
Chief 君
Omae Wu Mei
烏梅 오매 · Mume Plum

40 g
Deputy 臣

flesh only
Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

40 g
Deputy 臣
Jigak Zhi Qiao
枳殼 지각 · Bitter Orange

40 g
Assistant 佐

Total 180 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

Treats hot dysentery with abdominal pain passing pure blood

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Heat in the intestinal blood with frank bleeding
Hot dysentery with cramping

Biomedical correlates

Haemorrhagic colitis
Bacillary dysentery

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治熱痢腹痛, 下純血. 黃連一兩半, 烏梅肉ㆍ當歸ㆍ枳殼各一兩. 右末, 醋糊和丸, 米飮下七十丸, 空心. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats hot dysentery with abdominal pain passing pure blood. Coptis, 1.5 nyang; mume plum flesh, tangkuei and bitter orange, 1 nyang each. Powder, make pills with vinegar paste, and take seventy in rice water on an empty stomach. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Four drugs where the Shanghanlun's formula of the same name has ten, and a different illness: this is for frank bleeding with pain, not for roundworm reversal. Coptis leads, mume plum astringes, tangkuei moves the blood and bitter orange the qi. The vinegar paste and the sour plum together make it the chapter's most frankly astringent heat formula. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.