Formulas · Reduce Food Stagnation 消食 · Dongwon (東垣)
Aucklandia Transform Stagnation Decoction
Mokhyanghwache-tang
한글 목향화체탕 · Pinyin Mu Xiang Hua Zhi Tang
Decocted with 5 slices of ginger.
Composition 構成
- Banha半夏 반하 · Pinellia6 g
Chief 君 - Chodugu草豆蔲 초두구 · Katsumada Galangal Seed4 g
Deputy 臣 - Siho柴胡 시호 · Bupleurum2.8 g
Deputy 臣 - Mokhyang木香 목향 · Costus Root2.4 g
Deputy 臣 - Jinpi陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel2.4 g
Assistant 佐 - Saenggang生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger2.4 g
Assistant 佐 dried raw (乾生薑) - Danggui當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica1.6 g
Assistant 佐 tail (尾) - Jisil枳實 지실 · Immature Bitter Orange1.6 g
Assistant 佐 - Honghwa紅花 홍화 · Safflower0.4 g
Assistant 佐 wine-washed - Gamcho甘草 감초 · Licorice4 g
Envoy 使
Total 27.6 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
- Transforms the stagnation knotted by worry taken with food
- Moves Qi and quickens a thread of Blood beneath the glomus
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Glomus fullness and pain below the heart from eating pasta amid worry (因憂食麪 心下痞滿作痛)
- Emotion-and-food compound stagnation
- Qi-constraint dyspepsia
Biomedical correlates
- Stress-associated functional dyspepsia
- Epigastric pain with emotional triggers
- Psychosomatic GI presentations
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治因憂食麪, 心下痞滿作痛. 半夏 一錢半, 草豆蔲ㆍ甘草 各一錢, 柴胡 七分, 陳皮ㆍ乾生薑ㆍ木香 各六分, 當歸尾ㆍ枳實 各四分, 紅花(酒洗) 一分. 右剉, 作一貼, 薑五, 水煎服. 《東垣》
Translation
Treats glomus fullness and pain below the heart from eating pasta amid worry. Pinellia 1.5 don; katsumada galangal seed and licorice, 1 don each; bupleurum 0.7 don; tangerine peel, dried raw ginger, and aucklandia, 0.6 don each; angelica tail and unripe bitter orange, 0.4 don each; wine-washed safflower 0.1 don. Cut the above, make one packet, add 5 slices of ginger, decoct in water and take. — Dongwon 東垣 (Donguibogam · Naesang)