Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Manbyeong Hoechun (萬病回春)

Ginseng and Coptis Decoction

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한글 삼련탕 · Pinyin Shen Lian Tang

參連湯

Composition 構成

Hwangryeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

12 g
Chief 君
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

8 g
Deputy 臣
Seongnyeonja Shi Lian Zi
石蓮子 석련자 · Aged Lotus Seed

8 g
Deputy 臣

Total 28 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Treats the clenched-mouth dysentery with heat severe at the mouth of the stomach

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Stomach heat surging upward with refusal of food
Dysentery with intractable vomiting

Biomedical correlates

Dysentery with intractable vomiting
Gastric outlet irritation

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治噤口痢, 胃口熱甚. 黃連三錢, 人參ㆍ石蓮肉各二錢. 右剉, 作一貼, 水煎取濃汁, 細細呷之. 如吐再喫, 但得一呷下咽便開. 仍用<a href='/formulas/eomje-beop'>罨臍法</a>. 《回春》

Translation

Treats the clenched-mouth dysentery with heat severe at the mouth of the stomach. Coptis, 3 don; ginseng and stone lotus seed, 2 don each. Cut up, make one packet, decoct to a thick juice, and sip it little by little. If it is vomited, drink again; only let one sip go down the throat and it opens. Then use the navel-poultice method. — Manbyeong Hoechun 回春 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The clenched-mouth dysentery is the chapter's name for a dysentery in which the patient can no longer keep anything down, and it is the condition's lethal turn: a patient losing fluid below and unable to take any in above. The instruction is the valuable part — a thick decoction sipped drop by drop, given again if vomited, because one sip that stays down breaks the cycle. That is exactly how oral rehydration is given to a vomiting patient today, and the Hoechun arrived at it by observation. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.