Formulas · Regulate Qi 理氣 · Junggyeong (仲景)

Magnolia Bark and Pinellia Decoction

Hubak-banha-tang

한글 후박반하탕 · Pinyin Hou Po Ban Xia Tang

厚朴半夏湯

The Shanghanlun's 厚朴生薑半夏甘草人參湯, named here by its first two drugs.

Composition 構成

Hubak Hou Po
厚朴 후박 · Magnolia Bark

12 g
Chief 君
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

6 g
Deputy 臣
Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

6 g
Deputy 臣
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

3 g
Envoy 使
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

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Envoy 使

seven slices

Total 27 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Treats abdominal distension and fullness after sweating has been induced in cold damage
Moves the qi downward and settles the middle

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Qi stagnation with distension after sweating
Middle burner qi blocked with fullness

Biomedical correlates

Post-febrile abdominal distension
Functional bloating

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治傷寒發汗後腹脹滿. 厚朴三錢, 人參ㆍ半夏各一錢半, 甘草七分半. 右剉, 作一貼, 入生薑七片, 水煎服. 《仲景》

Translation

Treats abdominal distension and fullness after sweating has been induced in cold damage. Magnolia bark, 3 don; ginseng and pinellia, 1 don 5 fun each; licorice, 7 fun 5 ri. Cut up, make one packet, add seven slices of fresh ginger and decoct in water. — Junggyeong 仲景 (Donguibogam · Han)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Zhongjing's formula for a specific iatrogenic problem: the patient has been sweated, the fever has gone, and now the belly is tight and full. That is a middle burner whose qi has been scattered by the sweating, and the answer is magnolia bark at double the next weight to bring it down, with ginseng to replace what was lost and seven slices of ginger — more than the usual three — to warm what has been emptied. Five drugs for a complaint that follows treatment rather than disease, which is the sort of entry that shows a tradition watching its own results. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.