Formulas · Regulate Qi 理氣 · Seui Deukhyobang (世醫得效方)

Aloeswood Drink

Chimhyang-eum

한글 침향음 · Pinyin Chen Xiang Yin

沈香飮

Composition 構成

Nabokja Lai Fu Zi
萊菔子 나복자 · Radish Seed

8 g
Chief 君

蘿葍子, stir-fried and ground (炒硏)
Chimhyang Chen Xiang
沈香 침향 · Agarwood

4 g
Deputy 臣
Mokhyang Mu Xiang
木香 목향 · Costus Root

4 g
Deputy 臣
Jigak Zhi Qiao
枳殼 지각 · Bitter Orange

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

6 g
Envoy 使

Total 26 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

Downbears qi and disperses abdominal distension
Calms panting so that the patient can lie down

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Abdominal distension with panting
unable to sit or lie down

Biomedical correlates

Abdominal distension with dyspnoea

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治腹脹, 氣喘, 坐臥不得. 蘿葍子(炒硏) 二錢, 沈香ㆍ木香ㆍ枳殼各一錢. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑三片, 水煎服. 《得效》

Translation

Treats abdominal distension with panting, the patient unable to sit or lie down. Radish seed (stir-fried and ground) 2 don; aloeswood, costus and bitter orange 1 don each. Cut up, make one packet, add 3 slices of ginger, decoct in water and take. — Seui Deukhyobang 得效 (Donguibogam · Changman)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Four medicinals and radish seed leading at twice the rest — the simplest formula in the section. Radish seed downbears qi and dissolves food; aloeswood carries the downbearing to the lower burner. Nothing supplements and nothing drains water. 坐臥不得 — unable to sit or lie down — is a more severe statement than the orthopnoea recorded elsewhere in these chapters, and it marks distension pressing on the diaphragm. **Abdominal distension severe enough to prevent lying down requires medical assessment.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.