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

Seven Flavors Atractylodes and Phellodendron Powder

Chilmichangbaek-san

한글 칠미창백산 · Pinyin Qi Wei Cang Bai San

七味蒼柏散

Cut and made into one packet, decocted in water and taken on an empty stomach.

Composition 構成

Changchul Cang Zhu
蒼朮 창출 · Black Atractylodes

4 g
Chief 君
Hwangbaek Huang Bai
黃柏 황백 · Phellodendron

4 g
Chief 君
Duchung Du Zhong
杜仲 두충 · Eucommia Bark

4 g
Deputy 臣
Bogolji Bu Gu Zhi
補骨脂 보골지 · Psoralea

4 g
Deputy 臣
Cheongung Chuan Xiong
川芎 천궁 · Cnidium

4 g
Assistant 佐
Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

4 g
Assistant 佐
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

4 g
Assistant 佐

Total 28 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

Clears damp heat from a low back that aches after sitting
Rebuilds while it clears where the ground is vacuous

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Damp heat lumbar pain of the vacuous type (濕熱腰痛虛者)
Pain that breaks out in overcast weather or after long sitting
Damp heat on a depleted ground

Biomedical correlates

Low back pain worse with sitting
Weather-sensitive back pain
Sedentary occupational back pain

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

蒼朮ㆍ黃柏ㆍ杜沖ㆍ破故紙ㆍ川芎ㆍ當歸ㆍ白朮各一錢. 右剉, 作一貼, 空心, 水煎服. 《入門》

Translation

Atractylodes, phellodendron, eucommia, psoralea, cnidium, Korean angelica, and white atractylodes, 1 don each. Cut the above, make one packet, decoct in water and take on an empty stomach. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Yo)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Seven herbs at one flat don each, and the design is a compromise the chapter states openly: this is the *vacuous* version of damp heat lumbar pain, so atractylodes and phellodendron clear while eucommia and psoralea fill. For the replete version the chapter sends you elsewhere. Given that the identifying signs are pain after long sitting and pain in overcast weather, this may be the single most applicable formula in the chapter to a modern desk-bound patient. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.