Atractylodes White Tiger Decoction

Changchulbaekho-tang

한글 창출백호탕 · Pinyin Cang Zhu Bai Hu Tang

蒼朮白虎湯

The Cold Damage chapter gives this inside the leaf of 白虎湯 as 本方加蒼朮一錢, 名曰蒼朮白虎湯, without a leaf of its own. It is registered separately here because five chapters cite it by name — the Cold Damage, Summerheat, Dampness and Epidemic chapters among them.

Composition 構成

Seokgo Shi Gao
石膏 석고 · Gypsum

20 g
Chief 君
Jimo Zhi Mu
知母 지모 · Anemarrhena

8 g
Deputy 臣
Changchul Cang Zhu
蒼朮 창출 · Atractylodes Lancea

4 g
Deputy 臣
Gaengmi Jing Mi
粳米 갱미 · Non-glutinous Rice

—
Assistant 佐

half a hop
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

2.8 g
Envoy 使

Total 34.8 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient 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

Drains blazing heat from the qi level and dries the damp with it
Generates fluids and stops great thirst

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Heat with damp
sweating and thirst
Summerheat damp with a flooding pulse
Cold epidemic breaking out in autumn

Biomedical correlates

Febrile illness with heavy sweating in humid heat
Heat exhaustion

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

卽白虎湯本方加蒼朮一錢. 《丹心》

Translation

This is White Tiger Decoction with 1 don of atractylodes lancea added to the base formula. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Han)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The damp-weather version of White Tiger: the same gypsum-and-anemarrhena core with atractylodes lancea added to dry what the humidity has added. 瘟疫 2.4 prescribes it for the cold epidemic that breaks out in autumn, and 2.9 for the secondary case who is sweating spontaneously, which is where the choice between this and the ginseng version turns on whether the patient is damp or depleted. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.