Formulas · Reduce Food Stagnation 消食 · Dongwon (東垣)

Aucklandia Transform Stagnation Decoction

Mokhyanghwache-tang

한글 목향화체탕  ·  Pinyin Mu Xiang Hua Zhi Tang

木香化滯湯

Decocted with 5 slices of ginger.

Composition 構成

Total 27.6 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

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)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The chapter's most psychologically literate prescription — its indication names the cause as worry and noodles taken together, and its roster answers both: bupleurum for the knotted mood, the movers for the stalled meal, and a fleck of safflower for the blood a long brood congeals. Stress dyspepsia, diagnosed by name in the fourteenth century. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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