Formulas · Warm the Interior 溫裏 · Immun (入門)

Cold-Dispersing Powder

Chunghan-san

한글 충한산 · Pinyin Chong Han San

衝寒散

白薑 is dried ginger; 溫酒 and 薑湯 are vehicles rather than ingredients and are not listed as such.

Composition 構成

Hyangbuja Xiang Fu
香附子 향부자 · Cyperus

6 g
Chief 君
Chogwa Cao Guo
草果 초과 · Tsaoko Fruit

6 g
Chief 君
Geongang Gan Jiang
乾薑 건강 · Dried Ginger

2.8 g
Chief 君
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

6 g
Deputy 臣
Sain Sha Ren
砂仁 사인 · Amomum

2.8 g
Deputy 臣
Yukdugu Rou Dou Kou
肉豆蔻 육두구 · Nutmeg

2.8 g
Deputy 臣
Osuyu Wu Zhu Yu
吳茱萸 오수유 · Evodia

1.2 g
Deputy 臣
Gwakhyang Huo Xiang
藿香 곽향 · Korean Mint

1.2 g
Assistant 佐
Baekbongnyeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

1.2 g
Assistant 佐
Moktong Mu Tong
木通 목통 · Akebia

1.2 g
Assistant 佐

Total 31.2 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 the middle burner and stops diarrhoea
Restores the appetite

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Entrenched cold with abdominal pain and diarrhoea
Cold in the middle burner with reduced appetite

Biomedical correlates

Chronic diarrhoea with cold intolerance
Functional dyspepsia with loose stool

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治痼冷ㆍ腹痛ㆍ泄瀉ㆍ飮食減少. 香附子ㆍ陳皮ㆍ草果各一錢半, 縮砂ㆍ白薑ㆍ肉豆蔲各七分, 藿香ㆍ白茯苓ㆍ木通ㆍ吳茱萸各三分. 右爲末, 每二錢, 溫酒或薑湯調下. 或剉作一貼, 水煎服. 《入門》

Translation

Treats entrenched cold with abdominal pain, diarrhoea and reduced appetite. Cyperus, tangerine peel and tsaoko, 1 don 5 fun each; amomum, white ginger and nutmeg, 7 fun each; agastache, poria, akebia and evodia, 3 fun each. Powder, and take 2 don stirred into warm wine or ginger decoction. Or cut up, make one packet and decoct in water. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Han, lower)

Clinical commentary 臨床

痼冷 is cold that has become a fixture rather than an episode — the patient who is always cold, whose stool is always loose and who has long since stopped enjoying food — and this is the opening formula of the Bogam's short section on it. Ten aromatic warming drugs, no aconite, and the heaviest doses on cyperus, tangerine peel and tsaoko, which move qi rather than add heat. Nutmeg and evodia for the diarrhoea. Akebia at 3 fun is the odd one out, cool and draining, put in to stop a formula this warm from drying the patient out. Taken in warm wine or ginger decoction, either of which carries it downward. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.