Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Yangbang (良方)

Jade Dew Powder

Ongno-san

한글 옥로산  ·  Pinyin Yu Lu San

玉露散

Cut and made into one packet, decocted in water and taken. Note on modern practice: breast pain with fever after birth may indicate mastitis and requires medical evaluation; frequent effective milk removal remains the first measure.

Composition 構成

Total 44 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Milk vessels not moving after birth with vigorous body heat (乳脉不行 身體壯熱)
  • Breast heat and distension with fever
  • Cooling and freeing the milk at once (凉膈 壓乳 下乳汁)

Biomedical correlates

  • Breast engorgement with fever
  • Early lactation difficulty
  • Postpartum breast inflammation — supportive care

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

凉膈, 壓乳, 下乳汁. 桔梗ㆍ川芎ㆍ白芷 各二錢, 赤芍藥 一錢半, 人參ㆍ赤茯苓ㆍ甘草 各一錢, 當歸 五分. 右剉, 作一貼, 水煎服. 《良方》

Translation

Cools the diaphragm, presses down the milk, and brings the milk down. Platycodon, cnidium, and angelica dahurica, 2 don each; red peony 1.5 don; ginseng, red poria, and licorice, 1 don each; Korean angelica 5 fun. Cut the above, make one packet, decoct in water and take. — Yangbang 良方 (Donguibogam · Buin)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Named for the dew it hopes to bring down, and built to do two things at once — platycodon and cnidium open the chest and the vessels that run through it, angelica dahurica addresses the hot swollen breast, and the cooling pair takes down the fever that engorgement raises. The chapter treats a stalled letdown as a circulation problem in a heated chest, which is not far from what a modern lactation consultant describes. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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