Formulas · Warm the Interior 溫裏 · Uihak Gangmok (醫學綱目)

Costus Powder, Added and Subtracted

Gagam-mokhyang-san

한글 가감목향산 · Pinyin Jia Jian Mu Xiang San

加減木香散

Composition 構成

Mokhyang Mu Xiang
木香 목향 · Costus Root

10 g
Chief 君
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

10 g
Chief 君
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

10 g
Chief 君
Yangang Gao Liang Jiang
良薑 양강 · Lesser Galangal

10 g
Deputy 臣
Seungma Sheng Ma
升麻 승마 · Cimicifuga

10 g
Deputy 臣
Binrang Bing Lang
檳榔 빈랑 · Areca Seed

10 g
Assistant 佐
Singok Shen Qu
神麴 신곡 · Medicated Leaven

8 g
Assistant 佐

stir-fried
Yukdugu Rou Dou Kou
肉豆蔻 육두구 · Nutmeg

2 g
Assistant 佐

roasted in dough
Osuyu Wu Zhu Yu
吳茱萸 오수유 · Evodia

2 g
Assistant 佐

washed in hot water
Geongang Gan Jiang
乾薑 건강 · Dried Ginger

2 g
Assistant 佐

blast-fried
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

2 g
Assistant 佐
Sain Sha Ren
砂仁 사인 · Amomum

2 g
Assistant 佐

Total 78 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

Treats undigested-food diarrhoea and the water-and-grain dysentery
Also treats intestinal wind with undigested-food diarrhoea

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Spleen cold with food passing untransformed
Intestinal wind with a loose stool

Biomedical correlates

Malabsorption
Chronic diarrhoea

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治飱泄ㆍ水糓痢. 木香ㆍ良薑ㆍ升麻ㆍ檳榔ㆍ人參ㆍ白朮各二錢半, 神麴(炒) 二錢, 肉豆蔲(煨)ㆍ吳茱萸(湯洗)ㆍ乾薑(炮)ㆍ陳皮ㆍ縮砂各五分. 右麄末, 每五錢, 空心, 水煎服之. ○亦治腸風飱泄. 《綱目》

Translation

Treats undigested-food diarrhoea and the water-and-grain dysentery. Costus root, lesser galangal, cimicifuga, areca, ginseng and white atractylodes, 2.5 don each; stir-fried medicated leaven, 2 don; nutmeg roasted in dough, evodia washed in hot water, blast-fried dried ginger, tangerine peel and amomum, 5 fun each. Coarsely powdered; take 5 don each time, decocted in water on an empty stomach. It also treats intestinal wind with undigested-food diarrhoea. — Uihak Gangmok 綱目 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Undigested-food diarrhoea is the chapter's name for a stool in which the grain comes out whole, and the formula treats it as a cold spleen that has stopped transforming: warming aromatics with ginseng and atractylodes, leaven to digest, and cimicifuga to lift. Areca is the odd member, a drug the tradition uses to bear things downward, and its presence here among the lifting and warming drugs is the formula's hedge against stagnation. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.