Fortify the Spleen Pill

Geonbi-hwan

한글 건비환 · Pinyin Jian Pi Wan

健脾丸

Pill formula, bulk amounts: powdered and bound with a rice paste made in lotus-leaf decoction into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; 100 pills with plain boiled water.

Composition 構成

Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

200 g
Chief 君
Baekbokryeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

120 g
Deputy 臣
Baekjakyak Bai Shao
白芍藥 백작약 · White Peony

120 g
Deputy 臣
Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

120 g
Deputy 臣 ginger-prepared
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

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

80 g
Assistant 佐
Sansa Shan Zha
山楂 산사 · Hawthorn

80 g
Assistant 佐 flesh (肉)
Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

80 g
Assistant 佐 wine-washed
Cheongung Chuan Xiong
川芎 천궁 · Cnidium

80 g
Assistant 佐

Total 960 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

Fortifies the Spleen-Stomach and advances eating
Adds a thread of Blood care to the digestive frame

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Weak Spleen-Stomach with poor appetite and slow transformation (健脾胃進飮食)
Chronic digestive weakness with mild Blood insufficiency
Long-course fortifying regulation

Biomedical correlates

Chronic functional dyspepsia with fatigue
Poor appetite with pallor
Maintenance digestive-tonic therapy

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

健脾胃, 進飮食, 消化水穀. 白朮五兩, 白茯苓ㆍ白芍藥ㆍ半夏(薑製) 各三兩, 陳皮ㆍ神麴ㆍ山査肉ㆍ當歸(酒洗)ㆍ川芎各二兩. 右爲末, 煮荷葉湯作米糊和丸梧子大, 白湯下百丸. 《必用》

Translation

Fortifies the Spleen and Stomach, advances eating, and disperses and transforms water and grain. White atractylodes 5 nyang; white poria, white peony, and ginger-prepared pinellia, 3 nyang each; tangerine peel, medicated leaven, hawthorn flesh, wine-washed Korean angelica, and cnidium, 2 nyang each. Powder the above, make a rice paste in boiled lotus-leaf decoction, bind into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds, and take 100 pills with plain boiled water. — Piryong 必用 (Donguibogam · Naesang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Atractylodes at five ounces with angelica and cnidium riding in the back — the Piryong remembering what the pure Qi tonics forget: a spleen that has been weak for years has quietly starved the Blood too. Bound, of course, in Dongyuan's lotus-leaf gruel. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.