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Gardenia and Evodia Pill

Chiyu-hwan

한글 치유환  ·  Pinyin Zhi Yu Wan

梔萸丸

Composition 構成

Total 80 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 3 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Repletion heat — pain worse on pressure

Biomedical correlates

  • Gastritis
  • Peptic ulcer

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治氣實心痛, 按之尤痛. 山梔仁(炒焦) 一兩半, 吳茱萸ㆍ香附子 各二錢半. 右爲末, 蒸餠和丸如川椒大, 以生薑ㆍ生地黃煎湯下二三十丸. 《入門》

Translation

Treats qi repletion heart pain where pressing makes it worse. Gardenia kernel (fried until scorched) 1 nyang 5 don; evodia and cyperus 2 don 5 pun each. Powder them, bind with steamed bread into pills the size of a Sichuan peppercorn, and take twenty or thirty with a decoction of fresh ginger and fresh rehmannia. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Hyung)

Clinical commentary 臨床

按之尤痛 — pressing makes it worse, the repletion half of 1.28's test. Gardenia at six times the evodia: this is Jwageum-hwan's principle in reverse, a little of something hot to carry a great deal of something cold. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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