Formulas · Reduce Food Stagnation 消食 · Dongwon (東垣)
Aucklandia Unripe Bitter Orange and Atractylodes Pill
Mokhyangjichul-hwan
한글 목향지출환 · Pinyin Mu Xiang Zhi Zhu Wan
木香枳朮丸
Made and taken as Jichul-hwan — lotus-leaf-baked rice binding, 50–70 to 100 pills with boiled water.
Composition 構成
- Baekchul白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes80 g
Chief 君 - Mokhyang木香 목향 · Costus Root40 g
Deputy 臣 - Jisil枳實 지실 · Immature Bitter Orange40 g
Deputy 臣 bran-fried
Total 160 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 food and drink while breaking stagnant Qi
- Moves what the base pill only settles
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Food stagnation with bound stagnant Qi (滯氣)
- Distension and oppression predominating over glomus
- The Jichul pattern in a Qi-stagnant patient
Biomedical correlates
- Dyspepsia with prominent bloating and gas
- Functional GI stagnation
- Post-meal distension
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
消飮食, 破滯氣. 枳朮丸本方, 加木香 一兩, 製法服法同上. 《東垣》
Translation
Disperses food and drink and breaks stagnant Qi: the base Jichul-hwan with aucklandia 1 nyang added, made and taken as above. — Dongwon 東垣 (Donguibogam · Naesang)
Clinical commentary 臨床
The variation for the patient whose stalled dinner has taken the Qi hostage with it — aucklandia added not to digest anything but to break the standoff, the aromatic mover among the grinders. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.