Formulas · Reduce Food Stagnation 消食 · Dongwon (東垣)

Leaven and Sprout Unripe Bitter Orange and Atractylodes Pill

Gukbyeoljichul-hwan

한글 국얼지출환 · Pinyin Qu Nie Zhi Zhu Wan

麴糵枳朮丸

Made and taken as Jichul-hwan — lotus-leaf-baked rice binding, 50–70 to 100 pills with boiled water.

Composition 構成

Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

80 g
Chief 君
Singok Shen Qu
神麴 신곡 · Medicated Leaven

40 g
Deputy 臣 dry-fried
Maega Mai Ya
麥芽 맥아 · Barley Sprout

40 g
Deputy 臣 dry-fried
Jisil Zhi Shi
枳實 지실 · Immature Bitter Orange

40 g
Deputy 臣 bran-fried

Total 200 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

Disperses food damage with fermentative helpers aboard
Eases the stuffed unquiet chest after grain and starch

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Food damage with chest and heart region full oppressed and uneasy (心胸滿悶不快)
Grain and starch stagnation
The Jichul pattern needing enzymatic help

Biomedical correlates

Dyspepsia after starchy or grain-heavy meals
Postprandial chest fullness
Functional carbohydrate intolerance presentations

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治食傷, 心胸滿悶不快. 枳朮丸本方, 加神麴(炒)ㆍ麥芽(炒) 各一兩. 製法服法同上. 《東垣》

Translation

Treats food damage with the chest and heart region full, oppressed, and uneasy: the base Jichul-hwan with dry-fried medicated leaven and dry-fried barley sprout, 1 nyang each, added; made and taken as above. — Dongwon 東垣 (Donguibogam · Naesang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The starch specialist — medicated leaven and barley sprout are the pharmacy's two fermentation products, digestive cultures avant la lettre, sent in when the stalled meal was bread and grain. Enzyme therapy, four centuries early. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.