Formulas · Warm the Interior 溫裏 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Regulate the Middle Pill

Ijung-hwan

한글 이중환 · Pinyin Li Zhong Wan

理中丸

The pill form of 理中湯, whose weights are carried over; 治同上 refers to that entry's indication of taiyin abdominal pain with spontaneous diarrhoea and no thirst.

Composition 構成

Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

8 g
Chief 君
Geongang Gan Jiang
乾薑 건강 · Dried Ginger

8 g
Chief 君

blast-fried
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

8 g
Deputy 臣
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

4 g
Envoy 使

honey-roasted
Bongmil Feng Mi
蜂蜜 봉밀 · Honey

—
Envoy 使

refined, as the binder

Total 28 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 taiyin abdominal pain with spontaneous diarrhoea and no thirst
The pill form of Ijung-tang

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Taiyin cold with abdominal pain and diarrhoea
Middle burner yang vacuity

Biomedical correlates

Chronic diarrhoea
Functional abdominal pain with cold

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治同上. 以<a href='/formulas/ijung-tang'>理中湯</a>材作末, 蜜丸彈子大, 每一丸, 溫水化下. 《入門》

Translation

Treats the same as the above. Powder the materials of Ijung-tang, make honey pills the size of a bullet, and dissolve one in warm water for each dose. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Han)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The same four drugs as the decoction, pilled in honey and dissolved in warm water. The Bogam enters the pill separately because the two were not interchangeable in practice: a decoction was made up for an acute episode and a pill kept for the chronic case, and the honey and slow dissolution made the pill gentler on a stomach that could not take a strong draught. Three of the four formulas that follow in this section are further variants of the same base, which makes 理中湯 the most heavily modified formula in the chapter. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.