Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Seui Deukhyobang (世醫得效方)

Raw-Ingredient Four Substances Decoction for Sores in Children

Saengnyosamul-tang

한글 생료사물탕 · Pinyin Sheng Liao Si Wu Tang

生料四物湯

治同上 points back to 大連翹飮, the leaf immediately above, so the indication is that one's — 治諸瘡 — and the section head sends both to the same place. No entry of this name existed in the database, and the corpus carries 生料 in only three other places.

Composition 構成

Saengjihwang Sheng Di Huang
生地黃 생지황 · Raw Rehmannia

1.2 g
Chief 君
Jeokjagyak Chi Shao
赤芍藥 적작약 · Red Peony

1.2 g
Cheongung Chuan Xiong
川芎 천궁 · Cnidium

1.2 g
Danggwi Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

1.2 g
Bangpung Fang Feng
防風 방풍 · Siler

1.2 g
Hwanggeum Huang Qin
黃芩 황금 · Scutellaria

0.8 g
Bakha Bo He
薄荷 박하 · Mint

0.8 g

Total 7.6 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

Cools the blood in a child whose sores come from heat in the blood
Disperses the wind heat that itches at the surface
Taken as one packet decocted in water

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

The same as the preceding — all sores in a child (治同上)
Fetal heat, blood heat and wind heat (胎熱ㆍ血熱ㆍ風熱)
Sores over the whole body with itching and pain (諸瘡遍身痒痛)

Biomedical correlates

Impetigo and infected eczema in a child
Itching eruption with excoriation
Widespread inflammatory dermatitis of childhood

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治同上. 生地黃ㆍ赤芍藥ㆍ川芎ㆍ當歸ㆍ防風各三分, 黃芩ㆍ薄荷各二分. 右剉, 作一貼, 水煎服. 《得效》

Translation

Treats the same as the preceding. Raw rehmannia, red peony, cnidium, Korean angelica and siler, 3 fun each; scutellaria and mint, 2 fun each. Cut the above and make one packet, decoct in water and take. — Deukhyo 得效 (Donguibogam · Soa)

Clinical commentary 臨床

This is 四物湯 with both of its building drugs exchanged for their cooling counterparts and a wind trio added. The classical base is prepared rehmannia, white peony, cnidium and Korean angelica, and it builds blood; here raw rehmannia stands in for the prepared root and red peony for the white, which turns the same four drugs from a blood-builder into a blood-cooler, and then siler, scutellaria and mint are added to take the heat off the surface. 生料, raw ingredients, is the name of exactly that substitution. The weights are the same order as its companion — 3 fun and 2 fun, roughly a gram a drug. It is sent to the same illness: impetigo, infected eczema and the itching eruptions of childhood. The honest reading is the same as well. Cooling the blood does not clear a bacterial skin infection; antibiotics did, and for the itching ones permethrin did. What this formula has over its neighbours in the chapter is that **nothing in it is poisonous** — seven ordinary plant drugs and no mineral at all — and that matters in a chapter where the next section begins handing cinnabar to well children. **The leaf gives no dose by weight here**, only one packet for a child of any age. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.