Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Dansim (丹心)

Curcuma and Coptis Pill

Ulgeumhwangryeon-hwan

한글 울금황련환  ·  Pinyin Yu Jin Huang Lian Wan

鬱金黃連丸

Composition 構成

Total 760 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Accumulated heat in the small intestine and bladder
  • in any of its forms

Biomedical correlates

  • Cystitis
  • Urethritis
  • Chyluria

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治小腸膀胱積熱, 或癃閉不通, 或遺尿不禁, 或白濁如泔, 或膏淋如膿, 或如梔子水, 或如沙石米粒, 或如粉糊, 俱熱證也, 悉主之. 滑石ㆍ白茯苓 各四兩, 黑牽牛頭末 三兩, 黃芩ㆍ大黃ㆍ琥珀 各二兩, 鬱金ㆍ黃連 各一兩. 右爲末, 水丸梧子大, 沸湯下五七十丸. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats accumulated heat in the small intestine and bladder — retention with nothing passing, or incontinence, or white turbidity like rice-washing water, or gao strangury like pus, or urine like gardenia water, or like sand and grains of rice, or like flour paste: all are heat patterns, and it governs them all. Talc and white poria 4 nyang each; the first sifting of black morning-glory seed 3 nyang; scutellaria, rhubarb and amber 2 nyang each; curcuma and coptis 1 nyang each. Powder them, make water pills the size of a firmiana seed, and take fifty to seventy with freshly boiled water. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Sobyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The chapter's broadest formula, and the indication is a catalogue of what the urine can look like — rice water, pus, gardenia dye, sand, flour paste. Danxi's claim is that all of them are one thing, heat in the lower burner, and one pill answers them all. **Contains morning-glory seed, which is a drastic purgative and toxic.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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