Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Uihak Jeongjeon (醫學正傳)

Minor Chuanxiong and Scutellaria Decoction

So-gunghwang-tang

한글 소궁황탕 · Pinyin Xiao Xiong Huang Tang

小芎黃湯

Explicitly a bridging prescription, to be given for two or three doses only before the major formula.

Composition 構成

Cheongung Chuan Xiong
川芎 천궁 · Cnidium

12 g
Chief 君
Hwanggeum Huang Qin
黃芩 황금 · Scutellaria

8 g
Chief 君
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

2 g
Envoy 使

Total 22 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 lockjaw that has entered the interior while there is still exterior heat
Given for two or three doses before Daegunghwang-tang

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Wind toxin entering the interior with residual exterior heat
Lockjaw with heat

Biomedical correlates

Tetanus in the established phase
Wound sepsis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治破傷風入裏, 猶有表熱. 川芎三錢, 黃芩二錢, 甘草五分. 右剉, 作一貼, 水煎服. 二三服後, 用<a href='/formulas/daegunghwang-tang'>大芎黃湯</a>. 《正傳》

Translation

Treats lockjaw that has entered the interior while there is still exterior heat. Chuanxiong, 3 don; scutellaria, 2 don; licorice, 5 fun. Cut up, make one packet and decoct in water. After two or three doses, use Daegunghwang-tang. — Uihak Jeongjeon 正傳 (Donguibogam · Pung)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Three drugs and an expiry date: give it two or three times and then move on. That is the section's staged treatment compressed into a single entry, and the formula's job is only to hold the ground between the exterior stage and the purging — chuanxiong still reaching outward, scutellaria already working inward. Prescriptions with a stated term of use are rare in the Bogam and worth marking wherever they appear. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.