Formulas · Reduce Food Stagnation 消食 · Taepyeong Hyeminhwajebang (太平惠民和劑局方)

Leaven and Atractylodes Pill

Gukchul-won

한글 국출원 · Pinyin Qu Zhu Yuan

麴朮元

Composition 構成

Singok Shen Qu
神麴 신곡 · Medicated Leaven

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Chief 君

stir-fried; equal parts
Changchul Cang Zhu
蒼朮 창출 · Black Atractylodes

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Chief 君

prepared; equal parts
Baengmyeon Bai Mian
白麪 백면 · White Wheat Flour

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Envoy 使

as paste for the pills

Total 0 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 3 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Treats summerheat injury with a sudden violent diarrhoea

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Summerheat with food stagnation and sudden diarrhoea

Biomedical correlates

Acute food-borne gastroenteritis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治傷暑暴瀉. 神麴(炒)ㆍ蒼朮(製) 各等分. 右爲末, 麵糊和丸梧子大, 空心, 米飮下三五十丸. 《局方》

Translation

Treats summerheat injury with a sudden violent diarrhoea. Stir-fried medicated leaven and prepared atractylodes, equal parts. Powder, make pills with wheat-flour paste the size of a paulownia seed, and take thirty to fifty on an empty stomach in rice water. — Gukbang 局方 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Two drugs: a digestive ferment and a drying aromatic, for the summer diarrhoea that follows spoiled food. It is the simplest formula in the section and the most likely to have been used, being cheap, keepable as pills and aimed at the commonest cause of an August diarrhoea. Neither drug is antimicrobial; what the pair does is settle the stomach and speed the clearance of a load the gut has refused. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.