Formulas · Release the Exterior 解表 · Onbyeongjobyeon (溫病條辨)

Mulberry Leaf and Chrysanthemum Drink

Sangguk-eum

한글 상국음 · Pinyin Sang Ju Yin

桑菊飮

Composition 構成

Sangyeop Sang Ye
桑葉 상엽 · Mulberry Leaf

10 g
Chief 君
Gamguk Ju Hua
甘菊 감국 · Chrysanthemum

4 g
Chief 君
Haengin Xing Ren
杏仁 행인 · Apricot Kernel

8 g
Deputy 臣
Yeongyo Lian Qiao
連翹 연교 · Forsythia

6 g
Deputy 臣
Gilgyeong Jie Geng
桔梗 길경 · Platycodon

8 g
Assistant 佐
Nogeun Lu Gen
蘆根 노근 · Reed Rhizome

8 g
Assistant 佐
Bakha Bo He
薄荷 박하 · Mint

3 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

3 g
Envoy 使

Total 50 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Disperses wind-heat with cool acridity
Disseminates Lung Qi and stops cough

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Mild wind-heat at the defensive level with cough as the chief sign
Slight fever with little thirst
Early warm-disease centered on the Lung

Biomedical correlates

Cough-dominant colds
Early viral upper respiratory infection with cough
Mild febrile cough in children

Clinical commentary 臨床

Eungyo-san's lighter sibling — when the throat is quiet but the cough leads. The warm-disease school's paired openings, one for the sore throat and one for the cough, cover between them the first two days of most respiratory illness. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.