Formulas · Warm the Interior 溫裏 · Dangye Simbeop (丹溪心法)

Supplemented Regulate the Centre Decoction

Gami-ijung-tang

한글 가미이중탕 · Pinyin Jia Wei Li Zhong Tang

加味理中湯

A different formula from the Hoechun 加味理中湯 of the cold chapters, which adds blast-fried aconite and cinnamon to Ijung-tang for entrenched cold. This one adds the phlegm drugs instead and carries no aconite.

Composition 構成

Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

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

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

4 g
Deputy 臣
Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

4 g
Deputy 臣

· toxic in the raw state
Jeokbongnyeong Chi Fu Ling
赤茯苓 적복령 · Poria (red)

4 g
Assistant 佐
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

4 g
Assistant 佐
Sesin Xi Xin
細辛 세신 · Asarum

4 g
Assistant 佐
Omija Wu Wei Zi
五味子 오미자 · Schisandra

4 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

4 g
Envoy 使
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

—
Envoy 使

three slices
Daejo Da Zao
大棗 대조 · Jujube

—
Envoy 使

two fruits

Total g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 2 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Treats cough where lung and stomach are both cold

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Cold in both lung and stomach with cough
Thin watery phlegm with a poor appetite

Biomedical correlates

Chronic cough with cold pattern dyspepsia

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治肺胃俱寒咳嗽. 人參ㆍ白朮ㆍ乾薑ㆍ甘草ㆍ赤茯苓ㆍ半夏ㆍ陳皮ㆍ細辛ㆍ五味子各一錢. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑三ㆍ棗二, 水煎服. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats cough where lung and stomach are both cold. Ginseng, white atractylodes, dried ginger, licorice, red poria, pinellia, tangerine peel, asarum and schisandra, 1 don each. Cut up, make one packet, add three slices of ginger and two jujubes, and decoct in water. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Haesu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Ijung-tang — ginseng, atractylodes, dried ginger and licorice — with Ijin-tang's poria, pinellia and tangerine peel laid over it, and asarum and schisandra added for the cough. The construction is the chapter's answer to its own diagnosis: 肺胃俱寒, both lung and stomach cold, so one formula for each and the two given together. This is the most used pattern in the whole cold-cough group, and the reasoning behind it survives in practice: a chronic cough with thin watery sputum in a patient with a weak appetite and cold hands is treated through the digestion as much as the chest. **Contains pinellia, toxic in the raw state and to be properly processed, and asarum, which modern pharmacopoeias restrict to smaller doses.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.