Formulas · Warm the Interior 溫裏 · Seui Deukhyobang (世醫得效方)

Ginger and Atractylodes Decoction

Gangchul-tang

한글 강출탕 · Pinyin Jiang Zhu Tang

薑朮湯

白薑 is dried ginger with the skin scraped, entered here as 乾薑.

Composition 構成

Geongang Gan Jiang
乾薑 건강 · Dried Ginger

20 g
Chief 君

raw
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

20 g
Chief 君
Jeokbongnyeong Chi Fu Ling
赤茯苓 적복령 · Poria (red)

20 g
Deputy 臣
Banhaguk Ban Xia Qu
半夏麴 반하국 · Fermented Pinellia

20 g
Deputy 臣
Yukgye Rou Gui
肉桂 육계 · Cinnamon Bark

10 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

10 g
Envoy 使

Total 100 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 centre and moves stayed rheum
Fortifies the spleen and dries damp
Settles throbbing in a depleted patient

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Rheum stayed in a vacuous person with fearful throbbing
Cold rheum below the heart
Throbbing with cold limbs and a pale tongue

Biomedical correlates

Palpitations with cold intolerance
Functional dyspepsia with fluid retention
Palpitations in a debilitated patient

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治虛人停飮怔忡. 白薑(生)ㆍ白朮ㆍ赤茯苓ㆍ半夏麴各五錢, 桂皮ㆍ甘草各二錢半. 右剉, 每五錢薑三片棗二枚水煎服. 《得效》

Translation

Treats rheum stayed in a vacuous person with fearful throbbing. White ginger (raw), white atractylodes, red poria and pinellia leaven, 5 don each; cinnamon bark and licorice, 2 don 5 fun each. Cut up and decoct 5 don at a time with three slices of ginger and two jujubes. — Deukhyo 得效 (Donguibogam · Sin)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The warm counterpart to 茯苓飮子: the same rheum below the heart, but in a patient who is cold and depleted rather than congested, so the ginger and cinnamon lead and no phlegm-mover is needed beyond 半夏麴. 虛人, a vacuous person, is the whole indication — the formula is chosen by the constitution, not by the symptom. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.