Raise the Yang and Boost the Stomach Decoction

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한글 승양익위탕 · Pinyin Sheng Yang Yi Wei Tang

升陽益胃湯

Composition 構成

Hwanggi Huang Qi
黃芪 황기 · Astragalus

8 g
Chief 君
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

4 g
Deputy 臣
Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

4 g
Deputy 臣
Ganghwal Qiang Huo
羌活 강활 · Notopterygium

2.8 g
Assistant 佐
Dokhwal Du Huo
獨活 독활 · Aralia

2.8 g
Assistant 佐
Bangpung Fang Feng
防風 방풍 · Siler

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

2.8 g
Assistant 佐
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

2 g
Assistant 佐
Siho Chai Hu
柴胡 시호 · Bupleurum

1.2 g
Assistant 佐
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

1.2 g
Assistant 佐
Baekbokryeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

1.2 g
Assistant 佐
Taeksa Ze Xie
澤瀉 택사 · Alisma

1.2 g
Assistant 佐
Hwangryeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

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

6 g
Envoy 使 3 slices
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

4 g
Envoy 使
Daejo Da Zao
大棗 대조 · Jujube

4 g
Envoy 使 2 pieces

Total 48.8 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

Boosts the stomach and unfurls the Yang the autumn damp has furled
Courses wind-damp through the frame while the center rebuilds

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Autumn internal damage — food without savor heavy body and dry mouth (飮食無味體重口燥)
Stool and urine unregulated with shivery aversion to cold
The Yang unextended (陽氣不伸) in the damp season's wake

Biomedical correlates

Autumn-pattern fatigue with heaviness and poor appetite
Post-humid-season deconditioning
Mixed digestive and musculoskeletal sluggishness

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治內傷脾胃證. 秋燥濕熱少退, 而飮食無味, 體重口燥, 大小便不調, 或洒淅惡寒, 乃陽氣不伸故也. 黃芪二錢, 人參ㆍ半夏ㆍ甘草各一錢, 羌活ㆍ獨活ㆍ防風ㆍ白芍藥各七分, 陳皮五分, 柴胡ㆍ白朮ㆍ茯苓ㆍ澤瀉各三分, 黃連二分. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑三棗二, 水煎服. 《東垣》

Translation

Treats the internal damage of the Spleen and Stomach: in autumn, as the damp heat barely recedes — food without savor, the body heavy, the mouth dry, stool and urine unregulated, or shivering aversion to cold — this is the Yang Qi failing to extend. Astragalus 2 don; ginseng, pinellia, and licorice, 1 don each; notopterygium, pubescent angelica, saposhnikovia, and white peony, 0.7 don each; tangerine peel 0.5 don; bupleurum, white atractylodes, poria, and alisma, 0.3 don each; coptis 0.2 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 lineage's autumn chapter — the wind team (both notopterygiums and saposhnikovia) walks the body's stiff dampness out while astragalus rebuilds the stomach beneath, with a bead of coptis against the season's leftover heat. The unfurling formula: for the Yang that survived the summer folded. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.