Formulas · Transform Phlegm 化痰 · Yeokro (易老)

Ginger and Cinnamon Pill

Ganggye-hwan

한글 강계환 · Pinyin Jiang Gui Wan

薑桂丸

Composition 構成

Yukgye Rou Gui
肉桂 육계 · Cinnamon Bark

80 g
Chief 君

as 桂皮, the bark
Cheonnamseong Tian Nan Xing
天南星 천남성 · Arisaema

40 g
Deputy 臣

processed · toxic in the raw state
Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

40 g
Deputy 臣

processed · toxic in the raw state

Total 160 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Treats cold phlegm with cough

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Cold phlegm in the lung with cough

Biomedical correlates

Chronic bronchitis with copious sputum

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治寒痰咳嗽. 桂皮二兩, 南星ㆍ半夏(並製) 各一兩. 右爲末, 薑汁浸蒸餠和丸菉豆大, 薑湯下三五十丸. 《易老》

Translation

Treats cold phlegm with cough. Cinnamon bark, 2 nyang; arisaema and pinellia, both processed, 1 nyang each. Grind to a powder, make pills the size of a mung bean with steamed cake soaked in ginger juice, and give thirty to fifty down with ginger decoction. — Yeokro 易老 (Donguibogam · Haesu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

One of a set of three from the same hand, and they are worth reading together. Arisaema and pinellia at a nyang each are the fixed part; what changes is the drug above them, and it is chosen by the pattern — cinnamon bark here for a cold phlegm, scutellaria in Sohwang-hwan for a hot one, white atractylodes in Baekchul-hwan for a damp one. The chapter prints the three in three different sections, and the design only becomes visible when they are set side by side. **Contains arisaema and pinellia, both toxic in the raw state, and must be properly processed.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.