Formulas · Warm the Interior 溫裏 · Manbyeong Hoechun (萬病回春)

Warm the Spleen Powder

Onbi-san

한글 온비산 · Pinyin Wen Pi San

溫脾散

Composition 構成

Hwanggi Huang Qi
黃芪 황기 · Astragalus

2 g
Chief 君

honey stir-fried
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

2 g
Chief 君
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

2 g
Chief 君

earth stir-fried
Buja Fu Zi
附子 부자 · Prepared Aconite

2 g
Chief 君

blast-fried
Baekbokryeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

2 g
Deputy 臣
Sanyak Shan Yao
山藥 산약 · Chinese Yam

2 g
Deputy 臣

stir-fried
Geongang Gan Jiang
乾薑 건강 · Dried Ginger

2 g
Deputy 臣

blast-fried
Yukgye Rou Gui
肉桂 육계 · Cinnamon Bark

2 g
Deputy 臣
Gaja He Zi
訶子 가자 · Chebula

2 g
Assistant 佐

blast-fried
Yukdugu Rou Dou Kou
肉豆蔻 육두구 · Nutmeg

2 g
Assistant 佐

roasted in dough
Aengsokgak Ying Su Ke
罌粟殼 앵속각 · Opium Poppy Capsule (controlled)

2 g
Assistant 佐

honey stir-fried · narcotic
Chogwa Cao Guo
草果 초과 · Tsaoko Fruit

2 g
Assistant 佐
Jeonghyang Ding Xiang
丁香 정향 · Clove

2 g
Assistant 佐
Hwangryeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

2 g
Assistant 佐

stir-fried in ginger juice
Sain Sha Ren
砂仁 사인 · Amomum

2 g
Assistant 佐
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

2 g
Assistant 佐
Hubak Hou Po
厚朴 후박 · Magnolia Bark

2 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

2 g
Envoy 使
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

—
Envoy 使

three slices
Daejo Da Zao
大棗 대조 · Jujube

—
Envoy 使

two fruits

Total 36 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 2 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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

Treats an enduring diarrhoea with the grain untransformed
food and water going straight down the moment they enter the mouth
Treats the lower origin vacuous and cold with a slippery escape

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Lower origin vacuity cold with immediate passage of food
Chronic diarrhoea with incontinence

Biomedical correlates

Severe malabsorption
Rapid intestinal transit

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治久瀉, 米糓不化, 水糓入口卽時直下, 下元虛冷, 滑脫. 黃芪(蜜炒)ㆍ人參ㆍ白朮(土炒)ㆍ白茯苓ㆍ山藥(炒)ㆍ乾薑(炮)ㆍ訶子(炮)ㆍ肉豆蔲(煨)ㆍ鸎粟殼(蜜炒)ㆍ草果ㆍ丁香ㆍ肉桂ㆍ附子(炮)ㆍ黃連(薑汁炒)ㆍ縮砂ㆍ陳皮ㆍ厚朴ㆍ甘草各五分. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑三片, 棗二枚, 水煎服. 《回春》

Translation

Treats an enduring diarrhoea with the grain untransformed, food and water going straight down the moment they enter the mouth, the lower origin vacuous and cold, and a slippery escape. Honey-stir-fried astragalus, ginseng, earth-stir-fried white atractylodes, white poria, stir-fried dioscorea, blast-fried dried ginger, blast-fried chebula, nutmeg roasted in dough, honey-stir-fried poppy husk, tsaoko, clove, cassia bark, blast-fried aconite, coptis stir-fried in ginger juice, amomum, tangerine peel, magnolia bark and licorice, 5 fun each. Cut up, make one packet, add three slices of ginger and two jujubes, and decoct in water. — Manbyeong Hoechun 回春 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Eighteen drugs at five fun each — everything the chapter has, in equal and very small doses. That is a prescribing style rather than a prescription: when the pattern is a total failure of the bowel to hold anything at all, the Hoechun covers every mechanism at once, tonifying, warming, binding, moving and clearing. The one cold drug, coptis in ginger juice, is there because food passing straight through can be a heat sign as well as a cold one, and the formula declines to choose. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.