Bupleurum Drink

Sihoeum-ja

한글 시호음자 · Pinyin Chai Hu Yin Zi

柴胡飮子

Composition 構成

Siho Chai Hu
柴胡 시호 · Bupleurum

4 g
Chief 君
Hwanggeum Huang Qin
黃芩 황금 · Scutellaria

4 g
Deputy 臣
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

4 g
Deputy 臣
Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

4 g
Assistant 佐
Jeokjakyak Chi Shao
赤芍藥 적작약 · Red Peony

4 g
Assistant 佐
Daehwang Da Huang
大黃 대황 · Rhubarb

4 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

4 g
Envoy 使
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

4 g
Envoy 使 3 slices

Total 32 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

Clears the liver's heat while draining what it has bound
Courses cools and supplements on one seven-herb frame

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Liver heat with limbs oppressed and sinews cramping (肝熱)
Daytime heat coursing the Yang aspect (晝熱)
Constraint heat with bound stool

Biomedical correlates

Heat presentations with irritability and constipation
Daytime-predominant fevers
Liver-pattern inflammatory states

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治肝熱. 柴胡ㆍ黃芩ㆍ人參ㆍ當歸ㆍ赤芍藥ㆍ大黃ㆍ甘草各一錢. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑三片, 水煎服之. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats liver heat. Bupleurum, scutellaria, ginseng, Korean angelica, red peony, rhubarb, and licorice, 1 don each. Cut the above, make one packet, add 3 slices of ginger, decoct in water and take. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Hwa)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The liver-heat formula of the touch-and-clock table, and the chapter's appointed answer to daytime fever — bupleurum coursing what anger bound, rhubarb opening the exit liver heat closes, ginseng and angelica guarding the Qi and Blood the clearing would otherwise tax. Seven herbs at perfectly flat dose: drainage with an escort. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.