Formulas · Regulate Qi 理氣 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Tangerine Peel and Ginger Pill

Gyulgang-hwan

한글 귤강환 · Pinyin Ju Jiang Wan

橘薑丸

Composition 構成

Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

80 g
Chief 君

pounded together with the ginger and baked dry
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

80 g
Chief 君

pounded together with the peel and baked dry
Singok Shen Qu
神麴 신곡 · Medicated Leaven

80 g
Envoy 使

made into a paste for the pills

Total 240 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

Treats long-standing qi cough
Called the sage medicine for it

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Qi cough of long standing
Phlegm and qi stagnant in the stomach and lung

Biomedical correlates

Chronic cough with sputum

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治久患氣嗽聖藥. 陳皮ㆍ生薑(同擣焙乾) 各二兩. 右爲末, 神麴二兩作糊和丸梧子大, 米飮下三五十丸. 《入門》

Translation

The sage medicine for a long-standing qi cough. Tangerine peel and fresh ginger, pounded together and baked dry, 2 nyang each. Grind to a powder, make pills the size of a paulownia seed with a paste of 2 nyang of medicated leaven, and give thirty to fifty down with rice water. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Haesu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Two drugs and a binder, and the whole formula is the 嘔吐 chapter's pair of chief drugs for the qi — tangerine peel and ginger — pounded together before they are dried, so that the ginger's juice goes into the peel. The leaven is not only paste: it is the chapter's standard addition wherever food stagnation is suspected behind a cough. 氣嗽 in this chapter means the cough of a patient whose qi will not descend rather than one with an infection, and the formula is for the chronic case — 久患, long suffered. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.