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

Six Spirits Pill

Yuksin-hwan

한글 육신환 · Pinyin Liu Shen Wan

六神丸

Composition 構成

Hwangryeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

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Chief 君

equal parts
Mokhyang Mu Xiang
木香 목향 · Costus Root

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Deputy 臣

equal parts
Jigak Zhi Qiao
枳殼 지각 · Bitter Orange

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Deputy 臣

equal parts
Jeokbokryeong Chi Fu Ling
赤茯苓 적복령 · Poria (red)

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Assistant 佐

equal parts
Singok Shen Qu
神麴 신곡 · Medicated Leaven

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Assistant 佐

stir-fried; equal parts, part used as paste for the pills
Maega Mai Ya
麥芽 맥아 · Barley Sprout

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Assistant 佐

stir-fried; equal parts

Total 0 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 6 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

An essential medicine for the several dysenteries

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Damp heat dysentery with food stagnation

Biomedical correlates

Bacillary dysentery
Acute colitis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治諸痢要藥. 黃連ㆍ木香ㆍ枳殼ㆍ赤茯苓ㆍ神麴(炒)ㆍ麥芽(炒) 各等分. 右爲末, 神麴糊和丸梧子大, 每五七十丸. 赤痢甘草湯下, 白痢乾薑湯下, 赤白痢乾薑ㆍ甘草湯下. 《入門》

Translation

An essential medicine for the several dysenteries. Coptis, costus root, bitter orange, red poria, stir-fried medicated leaven and stir-fried barley sprout, equal parts. Powder, make pills with medicated-leaven paste the size of a paulownia seed, and take fifty to seventy each time: for red dysentery in a licorice decoction, for white dysentery in a dried-ginger decoction, and for red and white dysentery in a decoction of dried ginger and licorice. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Costus and Coptis Pill with bitter orange, poria and the two digestives added — the Immun's answer to a dysentery that began with food. The vehicle again carries the diagnosis: licorice for the red, ginger for the white, both for the mixed, so one pill serves three cases. That device recurs so often in this chapter that it is clearly standard dispensing practice rather than a curiosity. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.