Formulas · Regulate Qi 理氣 · Sokbang (俗方)

Sugar Pill

Satang-won

한글 사당원 · Pinyin Sha Tang Yuan

砂糖元

Composition 構成

Satang Sha Tang
砂糖 사당 · Granulated Sugar

40 g
Chief 君

scraped to crumbs
Sain Sha Ren
砂仁 사인 · Amomum

4 g
Deputy 臣

縮砂, powdered
Omija Wu Wei Zi
五味子 오미자 · Schisandra

2 g
Assistant 佐

五味子肉, powdered
Bongmil Feng Mi
蜂蜜 봉밀 · Honey

—
Envoy 使

a little honey to bind

Total 46 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient 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

Puts the spleen and stomach in order

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Spleen and stomach out of order

Biomedical correlates

Mild dyspepsia

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

調理脾胃. 砂糖一兩(作屑), 入縮砂末一錢, 蜜少許和勻, 每兩作三十丸, 細嚼嚥下. 加五味子肉末半錢尤好. 《俗方》

Translation

Puts the spleen and stomach in order. Sugar 1 nyang scraped to crumbs, with 1 don of powdered amomum added and a little honey to mix evenly; from each nyang make thirty pills, chew fine and swallow down. Adding half a don of powdered schisandra flesh is better still. — Sokbang 俗方 (Donguibogam · Naesang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

A lozenge. Sugar with amomum and honey, chewed rather than swallowed whole — and marked 俗方, a common local remedy, which is how Heo Jun signals something gathered from practice rather than from a text. This is the mildest preparation in the chapter and the only one that could be called a confection. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.