Formulas · Warm the Interior 溫裏 · Dongwon (東垣)

Pinellia Warm the Lung Decoction

Banhaonpye-tang

한글 반하온폐탕 · Pinyin Ban Xia Wen Fei Tang

半夏溫肺湯

Composition 構成

Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

4 g
Chief 君
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

4 g
Deputy 臣
Seonbokhwa Xuan Fu Hua
旋覆花 선복화 · Inula Flower

4 g
Deputy 臣
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

4 g
Assistant 佐
Sesin Xi Xin
細辛 세신 · Asarum

4 g
Assistant 佐
Yukgye Rou Gui
肉桂 육계 · Cinnamon Bark

4 g
Assistant 佐 cinnamon heart (桂心)
Gilgyeong Jie Geng
桔梗 길경 · Platycodon

4 g
Assistant 佐
Baekjakyak Bai Shao
白芍藥 백작약 · White Peony

4 g
Assistant 佐
Jeokbokryeong Chi Fu Ling
赤茯苓 적복령 · Poria (red)

4 g
Assistant 佐
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

10 g
Envoy 使 5 slices
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

4 g
Envoy 使

Total 50 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

Warms a cold vacuous stomach and transforms phlegm-water
Downbears counterflow and settles the churning below the heart
Restores the appetite

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Phlegm-water in the middle duct with a sense of open water below the heart
Gnawing discomfort and copious spitting of clear fluid
No desire for food
Sunken wiry fine slow pulse

Biomedical correlates

Chronic gastritis with cold pattern
Functional dyspepsia with excess salivation
Gastroparesis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治中脘有痰水, 心下汪洋嘈雜, 多唾吐淸水, 不欲食. 此胃虛冷也. 其脉沈弦細遲. 半夏ㆍ陳皮ㆍ旋覆花ㆍ人參ㆍ細辛ㆍ桂心ㆍ䓀莄ㆍ白芍藥ㆍ赤茯苓ㆍ甘草各一錢. 右剉, 作一貼, 薑五片, 煎服. 《東垣》

Translation

Treats phlegm-water in the middle duct, with a sense of open water below the heart and a gnawing discomfort, copious spitting and vomiting of clear fluid, and no desire for food. This is vacuity cold of the stomach. The pulse is sunken, wiry, fine and slow. Pinellia, tangerine peel, inula flower, ginseng, asarum, cinnamon heart, platycodon, white peony, red poria and licorice 1 don each. Cut up, make one packet, add 5 slices of ginger, decoct and take. — Dongwon 東垣 (Donguibogam · Damum)

Clinical commentary 臨床

汪洋 — a sense of open water below the heart — is the phrase worth carrying over intact. It describes the sloshing, unmoored feeling of fluid standing in the stomach, and paired with 嘈雜, the gnawing that is neither hunger nor pain, it gives a picture that maps closely onto gastric retention. All ten medicinals at exactly 1 don is unusual and marks this as a harmonizing formula rather than one with a single line of attack. Inula flower is the specific here: it downbears counterflow and dissolves phlegm-water, and it appears in the chapter's single-medicinal section as well. The section around it is a small differential worth reading. Copious spitting without cough in spleen vacuity that cannot restrain kidney water points to Palmi-won; after a serious illness it is a cold stomach and points to Ijung-tang; white froth means cold standing at the stomach mouth and alpinia is added. This formula is for the cold vacuous stomach with fluid actually present. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.