Formulas · Warm the Interior 溫裏 · Taepyeong Hyemin Hwaje Gukbang (太平惠民和劑局方)

Cassia and Poria Pellets

Gyeryeong-won

한글 계령원 · Pinyin Gui Ling Yuan

桂苓元

The equal parts are given here as 1 nyang each for conversion. 井水化下 — dissolved in well water — keeps the preparation cool despite its warming drugs.

Composition 構成

Yukgye Rou Gui
肉桂 육계 · Cinnamon Bark

40 g
Chief 君
Jeokbongnyeong Chi Fu Ling
赤茯苓 적복령 · Poria (red)

40 g
Chief 君
Bongmil Feng Mi
蜂蜜 봉밀 · Honey

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Envoy 使

refined, as the binder

Total 80 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient 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 injury by cold damp in the summer months with vomiting and diarrhoea
Two drugs in honey
dissolved in well water

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Cold damp in the middle burner with vomiting and diarrhoea
Water rheum with cold

Biomedical correlates

Gastroenteritis after cold drinks
Cold-damp diarrhoea

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治暑月傷冷濕ㆍ吐瀉. 桂心ㆍ赤茯苓右等分爲末, 煉蜜和勻, 每一兩作八丸, 井水化下一丸. 《局方》

Translation

Treats injury by cold damp in the summer months with vomiting and diarrhoea. Cassia heart and red poria in equal parts, powdered, mixed evenly with refined honey; make eight pills to the nyang and dissolve one in well water. — Gukbang 局方 (Donguibogam · Seo)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Two drugs and honey: cassia to warm the middle and red poria to lead the water out, which is Daesun-san reduced to its two essential motions. Dissolving a warming pill in cold well water is the same device the preceding entry uses, and it tells you something about the patients these formulas were for — people who would not take anything hot in high summer, however much their stomachs needed it. As a keeping preparation in a honey pill it would have travelled well. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.