Formulas · Drain Dampness 利水滲濕 · Junggyeong (仲景)

Stephania, Zanthoxylum Seed and Lepidium Pill

Banggichoryeok-hwan

한글 방기초력환 · Pinyin Fang Ji Jiao Li Wan

防己椒藶丸

Composition 構成

Bangi Fang Ji
防己 방기 · Sinomenium

40 g
Chief 君
Cheoncho Chuan Jiao
川椒 천초 · Sichuan Pepper

40 g
Deputy 臣

seed only (椒目)
Jeongryeokja Ting Li Zi
葶藶子 정력자 · Pepperweed Seed

40 g
Deputy 臣

stir-fried (炒)
Daehwang Da Huang
大黃 대황 · Rhubarb

40 g
Assistant 佐

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

Drives water standing between intestines and stomach
Frees both passages

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Water distension with abdominal fullness and a dry mouth and tongue
water qi lying between the intestines and stomach

Biomedical correlates

Ascites
Refractory fluid retention

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治水脹. 凡脹病, 腹滿, 口舌乾燥, 此腸胃間有水氣也. 防己ㆍ椒目ㆍ葶藶子(炒)ㆍ大黃各一兩. 右爲末, 蜜丸梧子大. 白湯呑下十丸, 日三. 《仲景》

Translation

Treats water distension. In any distension disease with abdominal fullness and a dry mouth and tongue, there is water qi between the intestines and stomach. Stephania, zanthoxylum seed, lepidium seed (stir-fried) and rhubarb 1 nyang each. Powder them and make honey pills the size of a firmiana seed; take ten down with plain hot water, three times a day. — Junggyeong 仲景 (Donguibogam · Changman)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Zhongjing's Jiwu Jiaoli Huang Wan, and the indication states the diagnostic sign plainly: abdominal fullness with a dry mouth and tongue. Thirst in a patient full of water is the paradox that identifies the pattern — the fluid is in the wrong compartment and none of it reaches the tissues that need it. **Contains rhubarb and lepidium. Not suitable for self-administration; ascites requires medical diagnosis.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.