Raise the Yang and Supplement the Qi Decoction

Seungyangbogi-tang

한글 승양보기탕 · Pinyin Sheng Yang Bu Qi Tang

升陽補氣湯

Composition 構成

Siho Chai Hu
柴胡 시호 · Bupleurum

6 g
Chief 君
Saengjihwang Sheng Di Huang
生地黃 생지황 · Raw Rehmannia

4 g
Deputy 臣
Seungma Sheng Ma
升麻 승마 · Cimicifuga

2.8 g
Deputy 臣
Taeksa Ze Xie
澤瀉 택사 · Alisma

2.8 g
Assistant 佐
Baekjakyak Bai Shao
白芍藥 백작약 · White Peony

2.8 g
Assistant 佐
Bangpung Fang Feng
防風 방풍 · Siler

2.8 g
Assistant 佐
Ganghwal Qiang Huo
羌活 강활 · Notopterygium

2.8 g
Assistant 佐
Dokhwal Du Huo
獨活 독활 · Aralia

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

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

6 g
Envoy 使 3 slices
Daejo Da Zao
大棗 대조 · Jujube

4 g
Envoy 使 2 pieces
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

2.8 g
Envoy 使

Total 41.6 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

Raises the morning-sunken Yang of the mistimed eater
Cools the five hearts while the lift is restored

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Stomach Qi insufficient from mistimed meals and taxing labor (飮食失時飢飽勞役)
Clouded oppression after the morning meal with need to sleep (早飯後昏悶要須眠睡)
Vexing heat of the five hearts with weary heavy limbs

Biomedical correlates

Morning postprandial somnolence
Fatigue with palm-sole heat in irregular eaters
Shift-work and skipped-meal depletion patterns

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治飮食失時, 飢飽勞役, 胃氣不足, 氣短無力, 四肢怠惰, 早飯後昏悶, 要須眠睡, 五心煩熱. 柴胡一錢半, 生地黃一錢, 升麻ㆍ澤瀉ㆍ白芍藥ㆍ防風ㆍ羌活ㆍ獨活ㆍ甘草各七分, 厚朴五分. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑三棗二枚, 水煎服. 《東垣》

Translation

Treats meals lost to their times — hunger, gorging, and taxing labor — with the stomach Qi insufficient: breath short and forceless, limbs indolent, clouded oppression after the morning meal with a need to sleep, and vexing heat of the five hearts. Bupleurum 1.5 don; raw rehmannia 1 don; cimicifuga, alisma, white peony, saposhnikovia, notopterygium, pubescent angelica, and licorice, 0.7 don each; magnolia bark 0.5 don. Cut the above, make one packet, add 3 slices of ginger and 2 jujubes, decoct in water and take. — Dongwon 東垣 (Donguibogam · Naesang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The breakfast-coma formula — its indication a case history of the mistimed eater (meals lost to hunger, gorging, and toil) and its chief seat given, uniquely in the lineage, to bupleurum: when even the morning's fresh Yang sinks by mid-morning, the lifter outranks the tonic. Raw rehmannia cools the five hearts the depletion has lit. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.