Formulas · Reduce Food Stagnation 消食 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Dog Millet Level the Stomach Pill

Gumipyeongwi-hwan

한글 구미평위환 · Pinyin Gou Mi Ping Wei Wan

狗米平胃丸

The powder worked into the gruel is Pyeongwi-san, given in the Inward Damage chapter; the leaf names it without weights, so it does not appear in the ingredient list here.

Composition 構成

Songmi Su Mi
粟米 속미 · Foxtail Millet

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Chief 君

raw millet fed to a starved yellow dog and picked out of its droppings, washed clean
Gu Jiu
韭 구 · Chinese Chive

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Deputy 臣

the white of the leek, decocted to make the liquid the millet is boiled in
Chimhyang Chen Xiang
沈香 침향 · Agarwood

8 g
Assistant 佐

worked in as the gruel finishes

Total g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 2 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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

Treats stomach reflux where no other medicine has worked

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Stomach reflux with food vomited morning and evening

Biomedical correlates

Gastric outlet obstruction — historical treatment

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治反胃諸藥不效. 黃雄犬一口, 餓數日, 用生粟米飼之, 取其糞中米淘淨, 用韭白煎湯煮作粥; 臨熟入沉香二錢ㆍ平胃散末, 和勻得所, 作丸梧子大. 每五七十丸, 陳米飮下. 《入門》

Translation

Treats stomach reflux where no other medicine has worked. Take one yellow male dog, starve it for several days and feed it raw millet; take the millet out of its droppings and wash it clean, decoct leek white and boil the millet in that liquid into a gruel; as it finishes add 2 don of aquilaria and powdered Level the Stomach Powder, mix it to the right consistency, and make pills the size of a paulownia seed. Fifty to seventy pills each time, taken down with old rice water. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Guto)

Clinical commentary 臨床

**Made from millet recovered from dog faeces. This must not be prepared.** Washing does not make faecal material safe: it carries Escherichia coli, Salmonella, Campylobacter and dog roundworm among others, and it is being given to a patient who is already unable to keep food down. The idea behind it is visible and almost reasonable — grain that has passed through a dog and come out whole has been, in the thinking of the time, half-digested by a strong stomach, and so might be digestible by a weak one. 諸藥不效, where no other medicine has worked, says where in the sequence of treatments it came. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.