Formulas · Stabilize & Astringe 固澀 · Uihak Jeongjeon (醫學正傳)

Wash Away Heat Powder

Tagyeol-san

한글 탁열산 · Pinyin Zhuo Re San

濯熱散

The alternative name 龍鬚散 is from the Dangye Simbeop. 新汲水 is water newly drawn from the well.

Composition 構成

Baekban Bai Fan
白礬 백반 · Alum

40 g
Chief 君
Obaeja Wu Bei Zi
五倍子 오배자 · Chinese Gall

40 g
Chief 君
Omae Wu Mei
烏梅 오매 · Mume Plum

40 g
Deputy 臣
Baengmyeon Bai Mian
白麪 백면 · White Wheat Flour

160 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

40 g
Envoy 使

Total 320 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Treats summerheat with vexing thirst
and is most wonderful for thirst after sudden turmoil
Astringes with sour and puckering drugs rather than cooling

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Fluid collapse after vomiting and diarrhoea with thirst
Summerheat with thirst from fluid loss

Biomedical correlates

Dehydration after gastroenteritis
Post-emetic thirst

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治暑熱煩渴, 及霍亂後渴最妙. 白礬ㆍ五倍子ㆍ烏梅肉ㆍ甘草各一兩. 右爲末, 入白麪四兩, 拌勻, 每二錢, 新汲水調下. 《正傳》 ○一名龍鬚散. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats summerheat with vexing thirst, and is most wonderful for thirst after sudden turmoil. Alum, galla rhois, mume flesh and licorice, 1 nyang each. Powder, add 4 nyang of white wheat flour, mix evenly, and take 2 don each time stirred into newly drawn water. Also called Yongsu-san. — Uihak Jeongjeon 正傳 · Dangye Simbeop 丹心 (Donguibogam · Seo)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The one formula in the chapter that treats thirst without a single cooling drug in it, and the reasoning is better than it first appears. Thirst after prolonged vomiting and diarrhoea is not heat but fluid gone, and the answer is to stop the loss and hold what remains: alum and galla rhois are powerfully astringent, mume is sour and provokes salivation, and the four nyang of wheat flour makes the powder into something between a drink and a gruel. Mixed into cold water it is a thickened oral rehydration preparation with an antidiarrhoeal in it, which is close to the right treatment. Alum in quantity is irritant to the stomach and is the formula's drawback. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.