Formulas · Regulate Qi 理氣 · Hwaje Gukbang (和劑局方)

Seven Qi Decoction

Chilgi-tang

한글 칠기탕 · Pinyin Qi Qi Tang

七氣湯

Composition 構成

Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

12 g
Chief 君

processed (製)
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

2.8 g
Deputy 臣
Yukgye Rou Gui
肉桂 육계 · Cinnamon Bark

2.8 g
Deputy 臣
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

6 g
Envoy 使
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

2.8 g
Envoy 使

mix-fried (灸)

Total 26.4 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Resolves depression and binding from the seven affects with griping pain of heart and abdomen

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

The seven affects depressed and bound
with griping pain of the heart and abdomen

Biomedical correlates

Functional abdominal pain with emotional distress

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治七情鬱結, 心腹絞痛. 半夏(製) 三錢, 人參ㆍ肉桂ㆍ甘草(灸) 各七分. 右剉, 生薑三片, 煎服. 《局方》

Translation

Treats the seven affects depressed and bound, with griping pain of the heart and abdomen. Pinellia (processed) 3 don; ginseng, cinnamon bark and licorice (mix-fried) 7 pun each. Cut up, add 3 slices of fresh ginger, decoct and take. — Hwaje Gukbang 局方 (Donguibogam · Gi)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Pinellia at four times anything else, and the reasoning is that the seven affects bind the qi into phlegm — the tradition's 七氣 is a phlegm condition as much as a qi one. Cinnamon warms what the binding has chilled; ginseng holds the centre. The Gukbang's original is the base of the more famous Sachil-tang below, which adds perilla and magnolia bark and drops the warming pair. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.