Formulas · Warm the Interior 溫裏 · Dongwon (東垣)

Magnolia Bark Warm the Centre Decoction

Hubakonjung-tang

한글 후박온중탕 · Pinyin Hou Po Wen Zhong Tang

厚朴溫中湯

Composition 構成

Geongang Gan Jiang
乾薑 건강 · Dried Ginger

8 g
Chief 君

blast-fried (炮), 2 don
Hubak Hou Po
厚朴 후박 · Magnolia Bark

6 g
Chief 君

1 don 5 pun
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

6 g
Deputy 臣

1 don 5 pun
Jeokbokryeong Chi Fu Ling
赤茯苓 적복령 · Poria (red)

2.8 g
Deputy 臣

7 pun
Chodugu Cao Dou Kou
草豆蔲 초두구 · Katsumada Galangal Seed

2.8 g
Deputy 臣

roasted (煨), 7 pun
Mokhyang Mu Xiang
木香 목향 · Costus Root

2 g
Assistant 佐

5 pun
Daejo Da Zao
大棗 대조 · Jujube

8 g
Envoy 使

2 pieces
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

6 g
Envoy 使

3 slices
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

2 g
Envoy 使

mix-fried (灸), 5 pun

Total 43.6 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 a visiting cold offending the stomach with the heart and abdomen vacuous
cold
distended and painful

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Cold striking the stomach — cold distending pain of epigastrium and abdomen

Biomedical correlates

Gastritis with cold pain
Functional dyspepsia

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治客寒犯胃, 心腹虛冷脹痛. 乾薑(炮) 二錢, 厚朴ㆍ陳皮各一錢半, 赤茯苓ㆍ草豆蔲(煨) 各七分, 木香ㆍ甘草(灸) 各五分. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑三片, 棗二枚, 水煎服. 戊火已衰, 不能運化, 又加客寒, 聚爲滿痛. 散以辛熱, 佐以苦甘, 氣溫胃和, 痛自止矣. 《東垣》

Translation

Treats a visiting cold offending the stomach, with the heart and abdomen vacuous, cold, distended and painful. Dried ginger (blast-fried) 2 don; magnolia bark and tangerine peel 1 don 5 pun each; red poria and round cardamom (roasted) 7 pun each; costus and licorice (mix-fried) 5 pun each. Cut up, make one packet, add 3 slices of ginger and 2 jujubes, decoct in water and take. The earth fire being already declined and unable to move and transform, and a visiting cold added to it, they gather into fullness and pain. Disperse with the acrid and hot, assist with the bitter and sweet; the qi warmed and the stomach harmonized, the pain stops of itself. — Dongwon 東垣 (Donguibogam · Bok)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Dongwon states his own reasoning after the formula: a stomach fire already low, a cold caught on top of it, and the two gathering into pain. 散以辛熱, 佐以苦甘 — disperse with acrid heat and assist with bitter and sweet — is the prescription rule the ingredients follow exactly. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.