Formulas · Reduce Food Stagnation 消食 · Hwaje Gukbang (和劑局方)

Jujube Flesh Calm the Stomach Powder

Joyukpyeongwi-san

한글 조육평위산  ·  Pinyin Zao Rou Ping Wei San

棗肉平胃散

Bulk powder method: the cut medicinals are soaked in water to half an inch above the drug, boiled until the water is gone, stone-baked, and pounded to powder; 2 don per dose, stirred into salted water on an empty stomach.

Composition 構成

Total 808 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

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Everyday food stagnation with damp-stomach heaviness
  • Long-use stomach regulation
  • The Pyeongwi pattern in gentler dress

Biomedical correlates

  • Chronic functional dyspepsia
  • Everyday digestive maintenance
  • Poor appetite with heaviness

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

消食, 和胃, 化痰. 蒼朮 八兩, 陳皮 四兩, 厚朴 三兩四錢, 甘草ㆍ大棗肉ㆍ生薑 各一兩六錢. 右剉碎, 水浸過藥上半寸許, 煮令水乾, 焙擣爲末, 每服二錢, 空心, 鹽湯點服. 《局方》

Translation

Disperses food, harmonizes the stomach, and transforms phlegm. Atractylodes 8 nyang; tangerine peel 4 nyang; magnolia bark 3 nyang 4 don; licorice, jujube flesh, and fresh ginger, 1 nyang 6 don each. Cut and crush the above, soak in water to about half an inch above the drug, boil until the water is dry, stone-bake and pound to powder; take 2 don each time, stirred into salted water on an empty stomach. — Gukbang 局方 (Donguibogam · Naesang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Pyeongwi-san with its ginger and jujube cooked into the powder itself — the formulary pre-brewing the pot's companions so the patient's dose is one spoon and salt water. The convenience format of its century. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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