Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Dangye Simbeop (丹溪心法)
Jade Dew Powder for Summerheat Thirst
Ongno-san
한글 옥로산 · Pinyin Yu Lu San
玉露散
Registered with the chapter suffix to distinguish it from the 玉露散 of the Breast chapter, which has a quite different composition.
Composition 構成
- Hansuseok寒水石 한수석 · Glauberite80 g
Chief 君 - Hwalseok滑石 활석 · Talc80 g
Chief 君 - Seokgo石膏 석고 · Gypsum80 g
Chief 君 - Gwarugeun瓜蔞根 과루근 · Trichosanthes Root80 g
Deputy 臣 - Gamcho甘草 감초 · Licorice20 g
Envoy 使
Total 340 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 summerheat thirst
- Four cooling minerals with trichosanthes root
- taken in well water
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Summerheat with great thirst
- Stomach heat with thirst
Biomedical correlates
- Heat exhaustion with thirst
- Hyperthermia
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治暑渴. 寒水石ㆍ滑石ㆍ石膏ㆍ天花粉 各二兩, 甘草 五錢. 右爲細末, 每三錢, 井水調下. 《丹心》
Translation
Treats summerheat thirst. Calcite, talc, gypsum and trichosanthes root, 2 nyang each; licorice, 5 don. Make a fine powder; 3 don each time, taken stirred into well water. — Dangye Simbeop 丹心 (Donguibogam · Seo)
Clinical commentary 臨床
Three cooling minerals and a fluid-generating root, stirred into cold well water: of everything in the chapter this is the closest to a drink rather than a medicine. Gypsum and calcite clear heat from the stomach and the exterior, talc takes it out through the urine, trichosanthes root replaces the fluid, and licorice makes it palatable. For simple thirst in a hot, dry, feverish patient it is well constructed, and the mineral-heavy composition means it keeps indefinitely as a powder — which matters for a medicine that has to be on hand the day the heat arrives. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.