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Ginseng and Poria Strengthen the Spleen Pill

Samryeongjangbi-won

한글 삼령장비원  ·  Pinyin Shen Ling Zhuang Pi Yuan

參苓壯脾元

Pill formula, bulk amounts: powdered and bound with honey into pills the size of crossbow pellets; one pill each time, chewed down with plain boiled water — warm wine also serves.

Composition 構成

Total 440 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

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Spleen-Stomach vacuity cold with sallow face and weary limbs (面色萎黃 肢體怠惰)
  • Eating not returning to normal after illness (因病氣衰 食不復常)
  • Cold-type convalescent failure to thrive

Biomedical correlates

  • Post-illness anorexia with pallor and fatigue
  • Cold-pattern convalescent debility
  • Geriatric failure to thrive

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治脾胃虛冷, 飮食不消, 面色萎黃, 肢體怠惰, 或因病氣衰, 食不復常. 人參ㆍ白朮ㆍ白茯苓ㆍ縮砂ㆍ神麴ㆍ麥芽ㆍ山藥ㆍ白扁豆ㆍ肉桂ㆍ乾薑ㆍ胡椒 各一兩. 右爲末, 蜜丸彈子大, 每一丸, 白湯嚼下. 溫酒亦可. 《局方》

Translation

Treats Spleen-Stomach vacuity cold with food undispersed, a sallow withered face, and weary indolent limbs — or Qi debilitated through illness, with eating not returning to normal. Ginseng, white atractylodes, white poria, amomum, medicated leaven, barley sprout, dioscorea, white hyacinth bean, cinnamon bark, dried ginger, and black pepper, 1 nyang each. Powder the above and bind with honey into pills the size of crossbow pellets; chew one pill down each time with plain boiled water — warm wine also serves. — Gukbang 局方 (Donguibogam · Naesang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The Song formulary's answer to the patient illness left behind — sallow, weary, uninterested in dinner — with black pepper written into the prescription beside cinnamon and ginger: the kitchen's hottest corner recruited to relight a stove that sickness put out. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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