Formulas · Transform Dampness 化濕 · Dangye Simbeop (丹溪心法)

Ten-Flavour Elsholtzia Drink

Simmi-hyangyu-eum

한글 십미향유음 · Pinyin Shi Wei Xiang Ru Yin

十味香薷飮

Built on 香薷散 — elsholtzia, magnolia bark and hyacinth bean — with the four gentlemen, astragalus, tangerine peel and chaenomeles added to make ten drugs.

Composition 構成

Hyangyu Xiang Ru
香薷 향유 · Elsholtzia

6 g
Chief 君
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

2.8 g
Chief 君
Hwanggi Huang Qi
黃芪 황기 · Astragalus

2.8 g
Chief 君
Hubak Hou Po
厚朴 후박 · Magnolia Bark

2.8 g
Deputy 臣
Baekpyeondu Bai Bian Dou
白扁豆 백편두 · Hyacinth Bean

2.8 g
Deputy 臣
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

2.8 g
Deputy 臣
Baekbongnyeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

2.8 g
Deputy 臣
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

2.8 g
Assistant 佐
Mogwa Mu Gua
木瓜 모과 · Chinese Quince

2.8 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

2.8 g
Envoy 使

Total 31.2 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

Disperses summerheat
harmonizes the stomach and supplements the qi
Taken as a decoction or as a powder in hot or cold water

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Summerheat damp with the stomach disharmonious
Summerheat with qi vacuity

Biomedical correlates

Heat exhaustion with nausea
Summer gastroenteritis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

消暑ㆍ和胃ㆍ補氣. 香薷一錢半, 厚朴ㆍ白扁豆ㆍ人參ㆍ陳皮ㆍ白朮ㆍ白茯苓ㆍ黃芪ㆍ木瓜ㆍ甘草各七分. 右剉, 作一貼, 水煎服; 或爲末, 每二錢, 熱湯或冷水任調下. 《丹心》

Translation

Disperses summerheat, harmonizes the stomach and supplements the qi. Elsholtzia, 1 don 5 fun; magnolia bark, hyacinth bean, ginseng, tangerine peel, atractylodes, poria, astragalus, chaenomeles and licorice, 7 fun each. Cut up, make one packet and decoct in water; or powder it and take 2 don each time stirred into hot water or cold water as preferred. — Dangye Simbeop 丹心 (Donguibogam · Seo)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The three-drug Hyangyu-san with seven more added, and the additions turn an acute summerheat formula into one that can be taken through a season. Elsholtzia still leads by weight and is the chapter's defining drug — aromatic, surface-releasing and damp-transforming, the tradition's specific for summer illness — while the four gentlemen and astragalus hold the qi and chaenomeles relaxes the cramping that comes with heat and fluid loss. The option of taking it as a powder in cold water is worth noticing: a hot decoction is the last thing a heat-stricken patient wants. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.