Formulas · Regulate Qi 理氣 · Hwarinseo (活人書)

Fresh Ginger and Tangerine Peel Decoction

Saenggang-gyulpi-tang

한글 생강귤피탕 · Pinyin Sheng Jiang Ju Pi Tang

生薑橘皮湯

Composition 構成

Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

320 g
Chief 君
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

160 g
Chief 君

tangerine peel

Total 480 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Treats dry retching, or dry retching with cold reversal of the hands and feet

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Dry retching from cold in the stomach
Qi counterflow with nothing brought up

Biomedical correlates

Retching without vomiting

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治乾嘔, 或手足厥冷. 橘皮四兩, 生薑八兩. 右剉, 以水七盞, 煮至三盞, 逐旋微溫呷服. 《活人》 ○一名陳皮湯. 治乾嘔最妙, 下咽卽愈. 《仲景》

Translation

Treats dry retching, or dry retching with cold reversal of the hands and feet. Tangerine peel, 4 nyang; fresh ginger, 8 nyang. Cut up, boil in seven cups of water down to three cups, and have the patient sip it a little at a time, barely warm. ○ Also called Jinpi-tang. Best of all for dry retching: it cures as soon as it is swallowed. — Hwarin 活人 · Junggyeong 仲景 (Donguibogam · Guto)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Two drugs in very large doses and a mouthful at a time, barely warm — the dose is in the whole decoction, not the sip. 乾嘔, dry retching, is retching that brings nothing up, and the Bogam treats it as a disorder of qi rather than of content, which is why the formula is only the two qi-moving drugs the chapter names at 2.3 as the mainstays. 下咽卽愈, cured as soon as it is swallowed, is the Junggyeong school's claim for it. Ginger in this quantity is a real antiemetic, and the claim is not absurd. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.