Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Supple Gold Pill

Yugeum-hwan

한글 유금환 · Pinyin Rou Jin Wan

柔金丸

The source gives no weight for the drug; the figure here is nominal. The same powder bound with honey instead of flour paste is registered separately as sanchi-hwan, the source naming the two as distinct formulas.

Composition 構成

Chija Zhi Zi
梔子 치자 · Gardenia

40 g
Chief 君

取仁炒黑, the kernels parched black

Total 40 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

Drains the fire of the three burners
Governs accumulated heat with the heart agitated

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Accumulated heat with the heart agitated
Fire of the three burners
Vexing heat in the heart and chest

Biomedical correlates

Heat presentations with restlessness
Agitation with insomnia

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

梔子, 主積熱心躁, 又瀉三焦火. 水煎飮之. ○又取仁炒黑爲末, 麪糊和丸服, 名曰柔金丸. 若蜜和爲丸, 名曰山梔丸. 又能去心胸煩熱. 《入門》

Translation

Gardenia governs accumulated heat with the heart agitated, and drains the fire of the three burners; decoct it in water and drink. ○ Or take the kernels, parch them black, powder them, make pills with wheat-flour paste and take them: it is called Yugeum-hwan. If they are made into pills with honey, it is called Sanchi-hwan. It is also able to remove vexing heat of the heart and chest. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Hwa)

Clinical commentary 臨床

One drug and two names, decided by nothing but the binder — flour paste for Yugeum-hwan, honey for Sanchi-hwan — and the Bogam records both as though they were separate prescriptions. That is worth noticing, because it is the clearest evidence in the book that the vehicle was taken to change what a formula does: honey moistens, flour paste does not. 柔金, supple gold, is the lung softened, metal being the lung's phase. Gardenia parched black is the standard processing where the drug is meant to reach the blood. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.