Formulas · Warm the Interior 溫裏 · Uihak Gangmok (醫學綱目)

Aconite Warm the Centre Decoction

Buja-onjung-tang

한글 부자온중탕 · Pinyin Fu Zi Wen Zhong Tang

附子溫中湯

Composition 構成

Buja Fu Zi
附子 부자 · Prepared Aconite

6 g
Chief 君

blast-fried
Geongang Gan Jiang
乾薑 건강 · Dried Ginger

6 g
Chief 君

blast-fried
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

4 g
Deputy 臣
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

4 g
Deputy 臣
Baekbokryeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

4 g
Deputy 臣
Baekjakyak Bai Shao
白芍藥 백작약 · White Peony

4 g
Assistant 佐
Hubak Hou Po
厚朴 후박 · Magnolia Bark

2.4 g
Assistant 佐
Chodugu Cao Dou Kou
草豆蔲 초두구 · Katsumada Galangal Seed

2.4 g
Assistant 佐

roasted in dough
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

2.4 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

4 g
Envoy 使

roasted

Total 39.2 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Treats cold striking the centre with abdominal pain and diarrhoea
the food passing undigested

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Centre cold with undigested food in the stool
Spleen and stomach yang vacuity

Biomedical correlates

Acute gastroenteritis with hypothermia
Malabsorption

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治中寒腹痛泄瀉, 水糓不化. 附子(炮)ㆍ乾薑(炮) 各一錢半, 人參ㆍ白朮ㆍ白茯苓ㆍ白芍藥ㆍ甘草(灸) 各一錢, 厚朴ㆍ草豆蔲(煨)ㆍ陳皮各六分. 右剉, 作一貼, 水煎, 空心服. 《綱目》

Translation

Treats cold striking the centre with abdominal pain and diarrhoea, the food and water passing undigested. Blast-fried aconite and blast-fried dried ginger, 1.5 don each; ginseng, white atractylodes, white poria, white peony and roasted licorice, 1 don each; magnolia bark, cardamom roasted in dough and tangerine peel, 6 fun each. Cut up, make one packet, decoct in water and take on an empty stomach. — Uihak Gangmok 綱目 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The chapter's standard for cold diarrhoea, and the construction is orthodox: the aconite and ginger pair at the head for the cold, the Four Gentlemen beneath for the vacuity, aromatics to keep the warming from becoming stagnant. The sign that justifies it is undigested food in the stool, which the tradition reads as a failure of the spleen's transforming fire. In modern terms that is steatorrhoea or rapid transit; the formula will not correct either, but the pattern it names — cold, painful, undigested — is one that genuinely responds to warming. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.