Raise the Yang and Boost the Stomach Powder

Dongwon's own note at the foot of the leaf tells you what this is: roughly the same prescription as Hwangryeonsodok-san. Set the two side by side and it holds — the three yellows, raw rehmannia, anemarrhena, notopterygium, pubescent angelica, ligusticum, saposhnikovia, platycodon, cocculus root, alisma, sappanwood, aged tangerine peel, ginseng, licorice and Korean angelica are in both, with forsythia promoted to chief here at 2 don and the weights rearranged. The accounting sentence, seven parts yang drugs to three parts yin, is Dongwon's way of saying the prescription leans to the raising and opening drugs rather than the cold ones, and the boast that it surpasses Sipseon-san is a direct comparison to the leading formula of the chapter's supporting arm. The name sits on the 內托 side — 能內托, able to express from within — and the leaf earns it with astragalus, ginseng, roasted licorice and Korean angelica tips, which supplement so the swelling is driven outward. But the bulk of the prescription drains heat, which is why it reads as a hinge between the chapter's two arms rather than a pure member of either: not the 疏 and 利 group carrying the toxin down out of a repleted body with rhubarb, and not the plain tonic expressing powders either. The preparation is distinctive and worth noting — steeped half a day before decocting, a few dozen drops of wine at the end, taken warm at bedtime, and no drinking water for three days afterward. Two name traps sit in this leaf. 一名復煎散 is not Naetakbokjeon-san, and 升陽益胃湯 in the Internal Damage chapter is a different prescription, though it shares astragalus, ginseng, notopterygium, pubescent angelica, saposhnikovia, aged tangerine peel, alisma, coptis and licorice with this one and plainly comes from the same workshop. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.