Bitter Orange Husk Powder

Jigak-san

한글 지각산 · Pinyin Zhi Ke San

枳殼散

Powder method: 2 don per dose stirred into thin rice water, three times daily.

Composition 構成

Hyangbuja Xiang Fu
香附子 향부자 · Cyperus

40 g
Chief 君 child-urine-processed (便香附)
Jigak Zhi Qiao
枳殼 지각 · Bitter Orange

20 g
Deputy 臣
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

20 g
Deputy 臣
Binrang Bing Lang
檳榔 빈랑 · Areca Seed

8 g
Assistant 佐

Total 88 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

Disperses the accumulation below the heart that belches rotten
Moves the Qi thrice daily until the stale air clears

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Accumulation below the heart — glomus or pain — with frequent rotten-egg belching (多噫敗卵氣)
The food-damage belch at its most pungent
Qi-stagnant epigastric accumulation

Biomedical correlates

Sulfurous eructation with epigastric discomfort
Food-retention belching
Gastric fermentation presentations

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治心下有積, 或痞或痛, 多噫敗卵氣. 便香附一兩, 枳殼ㆍ白朮各五錢, 檳榔二錢. 右爲末, 每二錢, 米飮調下, 日三. 《本事》

Translation

Treats accumulation below the heart — glomus, or pain — with frequent belching of rotten-egg Qi. Urine-processed cyperus 1 nyang; bitter orange husk and white atractylodes, 5 don each; areca 2 don. Powder the above; take 2 don each time stirred into thin rice water, three times daily. — Bonsa 本事 (Donguibogam · Naesang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The rotten-egg belch of the food-damage section, finally given its own prescription — no coolers at all, just four movers walking the fermenting accumulation down and out. The Bonsa treating a smell as what it is: traffic that stopped. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.