Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Dansim (丹心)
Evodia and Coptis Pill
Suryeon-hwan
한글 수련환 · Pinyin Zhu Lian Wan
A different 茱連丸 from the Immun's for acid swallowing, which is registered separately. The Bogam notes the alternative name 黃連丸.
Composition 構成
- Osuyu吳茱萸 오수유 · Evodia40 g
Chief 君steeped three days in good wine with the coptis, then picked out and dried over the fire; made up as separate pills
- Hwangryeon黃連 황련 · Coptis40 g
Chief 君steeped three days in good wine with the evodia, then picked out and dried over the fire; made up as separate pills
Total 80 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 red and white dysentery
- the coptis pills taken for red and the evodia pills for white
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Red dysentery from heat
- White dysentery from cold
- Mixed red and white dysentery
Biomedical correlates
- Bacillary dysentery
- Chronic colitis
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治赤白痢. 吳茱萸ㆍ黃連 各一兩. 右以好酒同浸三日, 乃各揀取焙乾爲末, 醋糊和丸梧子大. 赤痢則黃連丸三十粒, 以甘草湯呑下; 白痢則茱萸丸三十粒, 以乾薑湯呑下; 赤白痢則各取三十粒, 以甘草ㆍ乾薑湯下. 《丹心》 ○一名黃連丸.
Translation
Treats red and white dysentery. Evodia and coptis, 1 nyang each. Steep them together in good wine for three days, then pick each out, dry it over the fire, powder it, and make pills with vinegar paste the size of a paulownia seed. For red dysentery take thirty of the coptis pills, swallowed down with a licorice decoction; for white dysentery thirty of the evodia pills with a dried-ginger decoction; for red and white dysentery take thirty of each with a decoction of licorice and dried ginger. Also called Hwangryeon-hwan. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)