Formulas · Transform Phlegm 化痰 · Piryong (必用)

Moisten and Downbear Pill

Yunha-hwan

한글 윤하환 · Pinyin Run Xia Wan

潤下丸

Composition 構成

Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

640 g
Chief 君 1 geun, white pith removed (去白)
Baegyeom Bai Yan
白鹽 백염 · White Salt

80 g
Envoy 使 2 nyang, dissolved in water and boiled with the peel until soft, then dry-roasted
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

80 g
Envoy 使 mix-fried (灸)

Total 800 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Downbears phlegm and frees qi stagnation
Stops phlegm cough

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Phlegm accumulation with qi stagnation
Phlegm cough

Biomedical correlates

Chronic productive cough
Phlegm retention with bloating

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治痰積氣滯, 及痰嗽, 降痰甚妙. 陳皮一斤(去白), 鹽二兩(以水化, 同煮爛焙燥), 甘草二兩(灸). 右爲末, 湯浸蒸餠和丸梧子大, 白湯下三五十丸. 《必用》

Translation

Treats phlegm accumulation with qi stagnation, and phlegm cough; excels at downbearing phlegm. Tangerine peel 1 geun, white pith removed; salt 2 nyang, dissolved in water and boiled with the peel until soft, then dry-roasted; licorice 2 nyang, mix-fried. Powder them, make pills with steamed cake soaked in hot water, the size of a firmiana seed, and take thirty to fifty down with plain hot water. — Piryong 必用 (Donguibogam · Damum)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Three ingredients, and one of them is salt. Removing the white pith strips tangerine peel of its moistening, spleen-harmonizing side and leaves the acrid aromatic fraction that moves qi; boiling that in salt water then turns the whole thing downward. This is the parent of Augmented Moisten and Downbear Pill at 6.5.4.2, which keeps the same salt-boiled core and adds arisaema and the bitter colds on top. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.