Formulas · Reduce Food Stagnation 消食 · Jikji (直指)

Seven Fragrances Pill

Chilhyang-won

한글 칠향원 · Pinyin Qi Xiang Yuan

七香元

Pill formula, bulk amounts: powdered and bound with a rice paste into pills the size of mung beans; 30–40 pills with a ginger decoction.

Composition 構成

Hyangbuja Xiang Fu
香附子 향부자 · Cyperus

100 g
Chief 君
Samneung San Leng
三稜 삼릉 · Sparganium

20 g
Deputy 臣 vinegar-boiled
Bongchul E Zhu
莪朮 봉출 · Zedoary

20 g
Deputy 臣 vinegar-boiled
Mokhyang Mu Xiang
木香 목향 · Costus Root

20 g
Deputy 臣
Jeonghyang Ding Xiang
丁香 정향 · Clove

20 g
Deputy 臣
Baekdanhyang Bai Tan Xiang
白檀香 백단향 · Sandalwood

20 g
Assistant 佐
Gamsong Gan Song
甘松 감송향 · Nardostachys

20 g
Assistant 佐
Jeonghyang Ding Xiang
丁香 정향 · Clove

20 g
Assistant 佐 bark (丁香皮)
Chimhyang Chen Xiang
沈香 침향 · Agarwood

20 g
Assistant 佐
Gyulhong Ju Hong
橘紅 귤홍 · Red Tangerine Peel

20 g
Assistant 佐
Sain Sha Ren
砂仁 사인 · Amomum

20 g
Assistant 佐
Baekdugu Bai Dou Kou
白豆蔻 백두구 · Round Cardamom

20 g
Assistant 佐

Total 320 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 food and gladdens the diaphragm with a chorus of aromatics
Harmonizes the stomach and stops its pain

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Food stagnation with diaphragm oppression and stomach pain
Qi-stagnant digestion needing aromatic movement
Everyday post-meal discomfort of the fragrant-deficient

Biomedical correlates

Functional dyspepsia with epigastric pain
Bloating with poor gastric motility
Post-meal discomfort

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

消食快膈, 和胃止痛. 香附子二兩半, 三稜ㆍ蓬朮(幷醋煮焙)ㆍ木香ㆍ丁香ㆍ白檀香ㆍ甘松香ㆍ丁香皮ㆍ沈香ㆍ橘紅ㆍ縮砂ㆍ白豆蔲各五錢. 右爲末, 米糊和丸菉豆大, 薑湯下三四十丸. 《直指》

Translation

Disperses food and gladdens the diaphragm; harmonizes the stomach and stops pain. Cyperus 2.5 nyang; sparganium and curcuma (both vinegar-boiled and baked), aucklandia, clove, white sandalwood, nardostachys, clove bark, aquilaria, red tangerine peel, amomum, and white cardamom, 5 don each. Powder the above and bind with a rice paste into pills the size of mung beans; take 30–40 pills with a ginger decoction. — Jikji 直指 (Donguibogam · Naesang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Count the fragrances in the roster — aucklandia, clove, sandalwood, nardostachys, clove bark, aquilaria, and the cyperus that leads them: seven scents around a vinegar-tamed breaking pair. Digestion treated as an olfactory art; the pharmacy's perfume counter, pressed into mung-bean pills. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.