Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Seui Deukhyobang (世醫得效方)

Antelope Horn Pill

Yeongyanggak-won

한글 영양각원 · Pinyin Ling Yang Jiao Yuan

羚羊角元

Saiga antelope horn is a CITES Appendix II material; water buffalo horn or another cooling substitute is used in its place.

Composition 構成

Hwangryeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

80 g
Chief 君
Yeongyanggak Ling Yang Jiao
羚羊角 영양각 · Saiga Antelope Horn (prohibited)

60 g
Chief 君

filed to shavings · CITES
Hwangbaek Huang Bai
黃柏 황백 · Phellodendron

60 g
Deputy 臣
Baekbokryeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

40 g
Deputy 臣
Bongmil Feng Mi
蜂蜜 봉밀 · Honey

—
Envoy 使

as paste for the pills
Sechacha Xi Ya Cha
細芽茶 세아차 · Fine Tea Buds

—
Envoy 使

clear tea as the vehicle

Total 240 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 2 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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 the worm-curse dysentery

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Heat toxin in the intestines with a putrid stool
Worm-curse dysentery

Biomedical correlates

Amoebic colitis
Parasitic dysentery

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治蠱疰痢. 黃連二兩, 黃栢ㆍ羚羊角(鎊) 各一兩半, 白茯苓一兩. 右爲末, 蜜丸梧子大, 茶淸下五七十丸. 《得效》

Translation

Treats the worm-curse dysentery. Coptis, 2 nyang; phellodendron and antelope horn filed to shavings, 1.5 nyang each; white poria, 1 nyang. Powder, make honey pills the size of a paulownia seed, and take fifty to seventy in clear tea. — Seui Deukhyobang 得效 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Four drugs, two of them berberine-bearing, with antelope horn for the heat in the blood and poria to drain. Taken in tea, which adds its own tannins. The horn is restricted and the formula loses little by its omission — the coptis and phellodendron are doing the work against the organism the chapter could not see. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.