Formulas · Warm the Interior 溫裏 · Uihak Gangmok (醫學綱目)

Two Gingers Pill

Isan-hwan

한글 이강환 · Pinyin Er Jiang Wan

二薑丸

Composition 構成

Geongang Gan Jiang
乾薑 건강 · Dried Ginger

8 g
Chief 君

blast-fried (炮), equal parts
Yangang Gao Liang Jiang
良薑 양강 · Lesser Galangal

8 g
Chief 君

equal parts
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

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Envoy 使

tangerine peel decoction as the draught

Total 16 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

Greatly treats cold pain of the heart and spleen

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Cold pain of heart and spleen

Biomedical correlates

Epigastric pain from cold

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

大治心脾冷痛. 炮乾薑ㆍ良薑等分爲末, 麪糊和丸梧子大, 橘皮湯呑下二三十丸. 《綱目》

Translation

Greatly treats cold pain of the heart and spleen. Blast-fried dried ginger and lesser galangal in equal parts, powdered, bound with flour paste into pills the size of a firmiana seed, and swallowed twenty or thirty with tangerine peel decoction. — Uihak Gangmok 綱目 (Donguibogam · Hyung)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Two warming medicinals and nothing else — the plainest formula in the chapter and the one still prescribed under this name for a cold stomach. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.