Formulas · Transform Phlegm 化痰 · Uibang Jimnyak (醫方集略)

Level the Stomach and Disperse Drink

Pyeongwibunso-eum

한글 평위분소음 · Pinyin Ping Wei Fen Xiao Yin

平胃分消飮

Cut and made into one packet with 5 slices of ginger, decocted and taken.

Composition 構成

Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

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

4 g
Deputy 臣
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

4 g
Deputy 臣
Hubak Hou Po
厚朴 후박 · Magnolia Bark

4 g
Deputy 臣
Hwangryeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

3.2 g
Assistant 佐
Cheongpi Qing Pi
靑皮 청피 · Green Tangerine Peel

3.2 g
Assistant 佐
Jigak Zhi Qiao
枳殼 지각 · Bitter Orange

3.2 g
Assistant 佐
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

10 g
Envoy 使 5 slices
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

2 g
Envoy 使

Total 37.6 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

Levels a stomach churning with sour and gnawing
Disperses the phlegm fire behind it

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Swallowing of sour with gnawing hunger and phlegm fire (呑酸嘈雜痰火)
Acid with restless gnawing sensation
Phlegm-fire dyspepsia

Biomedical correlates

Acid reflux with epigastric gnawing
Functional dyspepsia
Phlegm-heat digestive presentations

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治呑酸嘈雜痰火. 半夏ㆍ白朮ㆍ陳皮ㆍ厚朴各一錢, 黃連ㆍ靑皮ㆍ枳殼各八分, 甘草五分. 右剉, 作一貼, 薑五片, 煎服. 《集略》

Translation

Treats the swallowing of sour with gnawing hunger and phlegm fire. Pinellia, white atractylodes, tangerine peel, and magnolia bark, 1 don each; coptis, green tangerine peel, and bitter orange husk, 8 fun each; licorice 5 fun. Cut the above, make one packet, add 5 slices of ginger, decoct and take. — Jimnyak 集略 (Donguibogam · Naesang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The leaner sibling of Jeungmiijin-tang — same target, four fewer herbs, and white atractylodes brought in to hold the center while the rest disperses. 嘈雜, the gnawing that this and its companion formulas address, is one of the chapter's better pieces of naming: not hunger and not pain, but a restless hollow churning that patients describe and rarely have a word for. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.