Costus Disperse Distension Pill

Mokhyangsojang-won

한글 목향소창원 · Pinyin Mu Xiang Xiao Zhang Yuan

木香消脹元

The source lists 大腹子 and 檳榔 separately at different weights; both are the areca palm's seed and both are entered under the same identifier with the source's own terms preserved in the preparation notes.

Composition 構成

Nabokja Lai Fu Zi
萊菔子 나복자 · Radish Seed

80 g
Chief 君

蘿葍子, stir-fried (炒)
Binrang Bing Lang
檳榔 빈랑 · Areca Seed

60 g
Deputy 臣

listed twice in the source
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

40 g
Deputy 臣
Jigak Zhi Qiao
枳殼 지각 · Bitter Orange

40 g
Assistant 佐
Sangbaekpi Sang Bai Pi
桑白皮 상백피 · Mulberry Root Bark

40 g
Assistant 佐
Soja Zi Su Zi
蘇子 자소자 · Perilla Seed

40 g
Assistant 佐

stir-fried (炒)
Hyangbuja Xiang Fu
香附子 향부자 · Cyperus

40 g
Assistant 佐
Mokhyang Mu Xiang
木香 목향 · Costus Root

10 g
Envoy 使

Total 350 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 distension and fullness
Downbears qi and frees the lung

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Distension and fullness

Biomedical correlates

Abdominal distension with bloating

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治脹滿. 蘿葍子(炒) 二兩, 陳皮ㆍ大腹子ㆍ枳殼ㆍ桑白皮ㆍ蘇子(炒)ㆍ香附子各一兩, 檳榔五錢, 木香二錢半. 右爲末, 麪糊和丸梧子大. 薑湯, 或棗湯下五七十丸. 《類聚》

Translation

Treats distension and fullness. Radish seed (stir-fried) 2 nyang; tangerine peel, areca seed, bitter orange, mulberry root bark, perilla seed (stir-fried) and cyperus 1 nyang each; areca 5 don; costus 2.5 don. Powder them, make pills with wheat paste the size of a firmiana seed, and take fifty to seventy down with a decoction of ginger or of jujube. — Yuchwi 類聚 (Donguibogam · Changman)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Radish seed at two nyang leading, with perilla seed and mulberry root bark behind it — three medicinals that downbear the lung qi in a formula for the abdomen. The reasoning is the one the Oedema chapter states at 2.1.5: the root of water is in the kidney and the tip in the lung, and what will not descend above cannot pass below. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.