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

Clove and Persimmon Calyx Powder

Jeonghyangsiche-san

한글 정향시체산 · Pinyin Ding Xiang Shi Di San

丁香柿蔕散

Composition 構成

Jeonghyang Ding Xiang
丁香 정향 · Clove

20 g
Chief 君
Siche Shi Di
柿蒂 시체 · Persimmon Calyx

20 g
Chief 君
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

20 g
Deputy 臣
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

20 g
Deputy 臣
Yanggang Gao Liang Jiang
良薑 양강 · Lesser Galangal

20 g
Deputy 臣
Baekbongnyeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

20 g
Assistant 佐
Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

20 g
Assistant 佐

processed · toxic in the raw state
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

30 g
Envoy 使
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

10 g
Envoy 使

Total 180 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 hiccup from vacuity cold of the stomach after a great illness

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Hiccup after severe illness, with a cold vacuous stomach

Biomedical correlates

Postoperative or post-illness intractable hiccup

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治大病後, 胃中虛寒咳逆. 丁香ㆍ柿蔕ㆍ人參ㆍ白茯苓ㆍ橘皮ㆍ良薑ㆍ半夏(製) 各五錢, 甘草二錢半, 生薑七錢半. 右爲麄末, 每三錢, 水煎, 乘熱頓服; 或調<a href='/formulas/sohaphyang-won'>蘇合香元</a>服之尤妙. 一方, 七味各一錢, 甘草半錢, 剉煎服亦可. 《綱目》 ○一名溫中散. 《醫鑑》

Translation

Treats hiccup from vacuity cold of the stomach after a great illness. Cloves, persimmon calyx, ginseng, white poria, tangerine peel, lesser galangal and processed pinellia, 5 don each; licorice, 2 don 5 fun; fresh ginger, 7 don 5 fun. Grind to a coarse powder; 3 don each time, decocted in water and taken all at once while hot, or better still stirred with Storax Pill. One formula gives the seven drugs at 1 don each and licorice at half a don, cut up and decocted, which will also do. — Uihak Gangmok 綱目 (Donguibogam · Haesu) ○ Also called Onjung-san. — Uigam 醫鑑

Clinical commentary 臨床

The best known hiccup formula in East Asian medicine and still in use. Cloves and persimmon calyx are the pair that defines it: both are held to bring rebellious qi down, and persimmon calyx is used for almost nothing else. The rest is a Sagunja base with galangal and pinellia for the cold and the phlegm. The indication — hiccup after a great illness — is where it is actually reached for: intractable hiccup in a patient weakened by illness or surgery, which the chapter reads as a cold, empty stomach. **Contains pinellia, which is toxic in the raw state and must be properly processed.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.