Formulas · Reduce Food Stagnation 消食 · Dongwon (東垣)

Pinellia Unripe Bitter Orange and Atractylodes Pill

Banhajichul-hwan

한글 반하지출환 · Pinyin Ban Xia Zhi Zhu Wan

半夏枳朮丸

Made and taken as Jichul-hwan — lotus-leaf-baked rice binding, 50–70 to 100 pills with boiled water.

Composition 構成

Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

80 g
Chief 君
Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

40 g
Deputy 臣 ginger-prepared
Jisil Zhi Shi
枳實 지실 · Immature Bitter Orange

40 g
Deputy 臣 bran-fried

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

Disperses cold-food damage while transforming exuberant phlegm
Dries what the cold meal left damp

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Damage by cold food with phlegm exuberant (傷冷食痰盛)
Cold-damp food stagnation
The Jichul pattern with phlegm complications

Biomedical correlates

Dyspepsia after cold or raw foods
Digestive sluggishness with mucus
Cold-pattern functional GI complaints

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治傷冷食, 痰盛. 枳朮丸本方, 加半夏(薑製) 一兩, 製法服法同上. 《東垣》

Translation

Treats damage by cold food with phlegm exuberant: the base Jichul-hwan with ginger-prepared pinellia 1 nyang added, made and taken as above. — Dongwon 東垣 (Donguibogam · Naesang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

For the meal that went down cold and came to rest as phlegm — ginger-tamed pinellia joins the pair, matching Dongyuan's own rule that cold-food damage takes warm, drying medicine. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.