Formulas · Warm the Interior 溫裏 · Haejang (海藏)

Boost the Yellow Powder

Ikhwang-san

한글 익황산 · Pinyin Yi Huang San

益黃散

Composition 構成

Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

40 g
Chief 君
Cheongpi Qing Pi
靑皮 청피 · Green Tangerine Peel

20 g
Deputy 臣
Gaja He Zi
訶子 가자 · Chebula

20 g
Deputy 臣

訶子肉, the flesh
Jeonghyang Ding Xiang
丁香 정향 · Clove

8 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

20 g
Envoy 使

mix-fried (灸)

Total 108 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 vacuity cold of the spleen with abdominal pain and diarrhoea

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

The spleen vacuous and cold
with abdominal pain and diarrhoea

Biomedical correlates

Chronic diarrhoea with abdominal pain
especially in children

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治脾藏虛冷, 腹痛泄利. 陳皮一兩, 靑皮ㆍ訶子肉ㆍ甘草(灸) 各五錢, 丁香二錢. 右爲末, 每二錢或三錢, 水煎服. 或剉, 五錢作一貼, 亦可. 一名補脾散. 《海藏》

Translation

Treats the spleen vacuous and cold, with abdominal pain and diarrhoea. Tangerine peel 1 nyang; green tangerine peel, chebula flesh and licorice (mix-fried) 5 don each; clove 2 don. Powder them and take 2 or 3 don at a time decocted in water; or cut up 5 don for one packet, which also serves. Also called Supplement the Spleen Powder. — Haejang 海藏 (Donguibogam · Bi)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Qian Yi's paediatric formula — the Haejang has it from him — and the tradition's standing remedy for a child's cold diarrhoea. Yellow is the spleen's colour, and 益黃, boosting the yellow, is supplementing the spleen. Chebula holds the bowel and clove warms it; the two peels keep the holding from binding. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.