Metal Dispersing Pill

Geumso-hwan

한글 금소환 · Pinyin Jin Xiao Wan

金消丸

Given as 各等分 with no absolute weights; grams entered at 40 each as a notional equal share.

Composition 構成

Sagan She Gan
射干 사간 · Blackberry Lily

40 g
Chief 君

equal part
Hwangbaek Huang Bai
黃柏 황백 · Phellodendron

40 g
Chief 君

黃栢, equal part
Hwanggeum Huang Qin
黃芩 황금 · Scutellaria

40 g
Deputy 臣

equal part
Hyeonggae Jing Jie
荊芥 형개 · Schizonepeta

40 g
Assistant 佐

equal part

Total 160 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

Treats swelling and pain of the throat
Held in the mouth and let dissolve, so that the medicine stays where the disease is

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Throat swollen and painful (咽喉腫痛)
Heat toxin lodged in the throat

Biomedical correlates

Pharyngitis
Tonsillitis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治咽喉腫痛. 黃栢ㆍ荊芥ㆍ射干ㆍ黃芩各等分. 右爲末, 蜜丸櫻桃大, 每一丸含化. 《簡易》

Translation

Treats swelling and pain of the throat. Phellodendron, schizonepeta, belamcanda and scutellaria, in equal parts. Powder the above and bind with honey into pills the size of a cherry; hold one pill in the mouth and let it dissolve. — Gani 簡易 (Donguibogam · Inhu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Four herbs and a cherry-sized honey pill held in the mouth until it melts — the delivery is the point. A throat that is swollen and painful can be reached directly, and a lozenge keeps the bitter medicines against the inflamed surface for as long as it takes to dissolve rather than sending them past it. Belamcanda is the chapter's specific for the throat and carries the formula; scutellaria and phellodendron drain the heat above and below it; schizonepeta, the one light, dispersing herb among three cold ones, is there to move what the others would otherwise simply chill into place. 金, metal, is the Lung in the five-phase scheme, and the name says that what is being dispersed is heat lodged in the Lung's own passage. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.