Formulas · Warm the Interior 溫裏 · Dongwon (東垣)

Aloeswood Warm the Stomach Pill

Chimhyangonwi-hwan

한글 침향온위환 · Pinyin Chen Xiang Wen Wei Wan

沈香溫胃丸

Composition 構成

Buja Fu Zi
附子 부자 · Prepared Aconite

40 g
Chief 君

blast-fried (炮) · toxic
Pageuk Ba Ji Tian
巴戟 파극 · Morinda Root

40 g
Chief 君

巴戟
Geongang Gan Jiang
乾薑 건강 · Dried Ginger

40 g
Chief 君

blast-fried (炮)
Hoehyang Hui Xiang
茴香 회향 · Fennel Fruit

40 g
Deputy 臣

stir-fried (炒)
Yukgye Rou Gui
肉桂 육계 · Cinnamon Bark

28 g
Deputy 臣
Chimhyang Chen Xiang
沈香 침향 · Agarwood

20 g
Deputy 臣
Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

20 g
Assistant 佐
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

20 g
Assistant 佐
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

20 g
Assistant 佐
Osuyu Wu Zhu Yu
吳茱萸 오수유 · Evodia

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

20 g
Assistant 佐
Baekbokryeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

20 g
Assistant 佐
Yangang Gao Liang Jiang
良薑 양강 · Lesser Galangal

20 g
Assistant 佐
Mokhyang Mu Xiang
木香 목향 · Costus Root

20 g
Assistant 佐
Jeonghyang Ding Xiang
丁香 정향 · Clove

12 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

20 g
Envoy 使

Total 400 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 spleen and stomach vacuity cold
Relieves pain of heart and abdomen and checks vomiting and diarrhoea

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Spleen and stomach vacuous and cold with aching pain of heart and abdomen
or sudden turmoil with vomiting and diarrhoea
or lower burner yang vacuous with pain around the navel and cold sweat

Biomedical correlates

Gastroenteritis with cold signs
Chronic abdominal pain with cold extremities

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治脾胃虛寒, 心腹疼痛, 或霍亂吐瀉, 及下焦陽虛, 臍腹痛, 冷汗出. 附子(炮)ㆍ巴戟ㆍ乾薑(炮)ㆍ茴香(炒) 各一兩, 肉桂七錢, 沈香ㆍ當歸ㆍ人參ㆍ白朮ㆍ吳茱萸ㆍ白芍藥ㆍ白茯苓ㆍ良薑ㆍ木香ㆍ甘草各五錢, 丁香三錢. 右爲末, 醋麪糊和丸梧子大, 米飮下五七十丸, 日三. 《東垣》

Translation

Treats spleen and stomach vacuous and cold with aching pain of heart and abdomen, or sudden turmoil with vomiting and diarrhoea, and lower burner yang vacuity with pain around the navel and cold sweat. Aconite (blast-fried), morinda, dry ginger (blast-fried) and fennel (stir-fried) 1 nyang each; cinnamon bark 7 don; aloeswood, angelica, ginseng, white atractylodes, evodia, white peony, white poria, lesser galangal, costus and licorice 5 don each; clove 3 don. Powder them, make pills with vinegar-flour paste the size of a firmiana seed, and take fifty to seventy down with rice broth, three times a day. — Dongwon 東垣 (Donguibogam · Naesang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Sixteen medicinals and every one is warm. The section it belongs to explains why: internal damage begins as heat in the centre and ends as cold in the centre, and this is the formula for the far end of that progression. 冷汗出 — cold sweat — with abdominal pain is the sign that marks yang vacuity rather than simple cold, and it is why aconite leads. **Contains aconite, which is toxic even when blast-fried. Not suitable for self-administration.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.