Formulas · Reduce Food Stagnation 消食 · Uihak Jeongjeon (醫學正傳)

Costus and Areca Pill for Abdominal Pain

Mokhyangbinrang-hwan

한글 목향빈랑환 (복통)  ·  Pinyin Mu Xiang Bing Lang Wan

木香檳榔丸

Not the Gukbang formula registered as mokhyangbinrang-hwan-changman; the two share a name only.

Composition 構成

Total 152 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Food accumulated with qi stagnant — abdominal pain

Biomedical correlates

  • Functional dyspepsia with abdominal pain

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治食積氣滯腹痛. 麥芽 七錢, 枳實 六錢, 白朮ㆍ靑皮ㆍ陳皮 各五錢, 厚朴 四錢, 木香ㆍ檳榔 各三錢. 右爲末, 蒸餠和丸梧子大, 溫水下五七十丸. 《正傳》

Translation

Treats food accumulation with qi stagnation and abdominal pain. Barley sprout 7 don; immature bitter orange 6 don; white atractylodes, green tangerine peel and tangerine peel 5 don each; magnolia bark 4 don; costus and areca 3 don each. Powder them, bind with steamed bread into pills the size of a firmiana seed, and take fifty to seventy with warm water. — Uihak Jeongjeon 正傳 (Donguibogam · Bok)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Barley sprout and bitter orange at the head with white atractylodes among the movers — the Jeongjeon's version supplements as it disperses, where the Gukbang's of the same name is a purge. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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