Formulas · Reduce Food Stagnation 消食 · Bang Gwang (方廣)

Tangerine and Coptis Unripe Bitter Orange and Atractylodes Pill

Gyullyeonjichul-hwan

한글 귤련지출환  ·  Pinyin Ju Lian Zhi Zhu Wan

橘連枳朮丸

Powdered and bound with a rice paste beaten in lotus-leaf decoction into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; taken as Jichul-hwan. Fang Guang's own accounting is appended: Yilao took supplementing-much and dispersing-little; Dongyuan's added peel made supplement and dispersal equal halves; 'I use atractylodes 3 nyang with bitter orange, peel, and coptis 1 nyang each — supplementing much, dispersing little, and clearing heat besides.' The Dansim adds a refinement on the binder: wrapping rice in the lotus leaf may not draw out the leaf's full flavor — better to boil the leaf into gruel and use that.

Composition 構成

Total 240 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Food stagnation with heat on a spleen-vacuity ground
  • The Jichul pattern with fire signs
  • Long-use dispersal in warm constitutions

Biomedical correlates

  • Dyspepsia with heartburn tendencies
  • Functional GI complaints with heat signs
  • Maintenance digestive support

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

補脾, 和胃, 消食, 化痰, 瀉火. 白朮 三兩, 枳實(麩炒)ㆍ陳皮ㆍ黃連(酒浸炒) 各一兩. 右爲末, 荷葉煮湯打米糊, 和丸梧子大, 服法同上. ○張易老, 取白朮二兩以補脾, 枳實一兩以消痞, 取其補多而消少. 至東垣, 加橘皮一兩以和胃, 則補消相半也. 予用白朮三兩, 枳實ㆍ陳皮ㆍ黃連各一兩, 乃補多消少, 又兼淸熱也. 《方廣》

Translation

Supplements the spleen, harmonizes the stomach, disperses food, transforms phlegm, and drains fire. White atractylodes 3 nyang; bran-fried unripe bitter orange, tangerine peel, and wine-soaked-fried coptis, 1 nyang each. Powder the above, beat a rice paste in lotus-leaf decoction, bind into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds, and take as above. — Zhang Yilao took white atractylodes 2 nyang to supplement the spleen and bitter orange 1 nyang to disperse glomus — supplementing much and dispersing little. With Dongyuan, tangerine peel 1 nyang was added to harmonize the stomach — then supplement and dispersal stood half and half. I use atractylodes 3 nyang with bitter orange, peel, and coptis 1 nyang each — supplementing much and dispersing little, and clearing heat besides. — Bang Gwang 方廣 (Donguibogam · Naesang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Three generations of a recipe arguing in its own dosage column — Yilao's tonic-leaning original, Dongyuan's even-handed revision, and Fang Guang's third way that leans tonic again while adding a fire-drain. A pill with a historiography, down to the debate over how best to cook the lotus leaf. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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