Formulas · Reduce Food Stagnation 消食 · Seui Deukhyobang (世醫得效方)

Leaven and Malt Pill

Gungnyeol-won

한글 국얼원 · Pinyin Qu Nie Yuan

麴糵元

Composition 構成

Singok Shen Qu
神麴 신곡 · Medicated Leaven

40 g
Chief 君 stir-fried (炒)
Maega Mai Ya
麥芽 맥아 · Barley Sprout

40 g
Chief 君 stir-fried (炒)
Hwangryeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

20 g
Deputy 臣 5 don, dry-fried with 3 croton kernels and the croton then discarded

Total 100 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 alcohol aggregation
Frees distension and settles acid regurgitation

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Alcohol aggregation that will not disperse
Abdominal distension with acid swallowing and retching counterflow
No appetite

Biomedical correlates

Alcohol-related gastritis with bloating

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治酒癖, 不消腹脹, 呑酸嘔逆, 不食. 神麴(炒)ㆍ麥芽(炒) 各一兩, 黃連五錢(巴豆肉三粒, 同炒去巴豆). 右爲末, 沸湯和丸梧子大. 薑湯下五七十丸. 《得效》

Translation

Treats alcohol aggregation that does not disperse, with abdominal distension, acid swallowing and retching counterflow, and no appetite. Medicated leaven (stir-fried) and barley sprout (stir-fried) 1 nyang each; coptis 5 don, dry-fried together with 3 croton kernels, the croton then discarded. Powder them, make pills with boiling water the size of a firmiana seed, and take fifty to seventy down with ginger decoction. — Seui Deukhyobang 得效 (Donguibogam · Jeokchwi)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Three medicinals, and the third is processed by a method this chapter uses repeatedly: coptis is dry-fried with croton kernels and the croton is thrown away. What remains is coptis carrying a trace of croton's driving force without its violence — the same technique as the evodia and alpinia frying in Yeonna-hwan at 1.7.2. The name is the formula: leaven and malt, the two medicinals that break down what was fermented. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.