Raise the Yang and Normalize the Qi Decoction

Seungyangsungi-tang

한글 승양순기탕 · Pinyin Sheng Yang Shun Qi Tang

升陽順氣湯

Composition 構成

Hwanggi Huang Qi
黃芪 황기 · Astragalus

8 g
Chief 君
Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

4.8 g
Deputy 臣
Chodugu Cao Dou Kou
草豆蔲 초두구 · Katsumada Galangal Seed

3.2 g
Deputy 臣
Singok Shen Qu
神麴 신곡 · Medicated Leaven

2.4 g
Assistant 佐
Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

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

2.4 g
Assistant 佐
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

2.4 g
Assistant 佐
Seungma Sheng Ma
升麻 승마 · Cimicifuga

1.6 g
Assistant 佐
Siho Chai Hu
柴胡 시호 · Bupleurum

1.6 g
Assistant 佐
Hwangbaek Huang Bai
黃柏 황백 · Phellodendron

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

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

1.6 g
Envoy 使

Total 35.6 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 sunken Yang so the seasons taste right again
Normalizes the Qi that internal damage has set against its clock

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Internal damage with spring tastelessness and summer chill (春月口淡無味夏月雖熱猶寒)
Chest and abdomen full and oppressed — hungry yet as if sated
The depleted patient out of joint with the seasons

Biomedical correlates

Chronic fatigue with appetite and thermoregulatory disturbance
Seasonal maladaptation in depleted patients
Functional dyspepsia with paradoxical satiety

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治內傷諸證, 春月口淡無味, 夏月雖熱猶寒, 胸腹滿悶, 飢常如飽. 黃芪二錢, 半夏一錢二分, 草豆蔲八分, 神麴ㆍ當歸ㆍ陳皮ㆍ人參各六分, 升麻ㆍ柴胡ㆍ甘草各四分, 黃柏三分. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑三片, 水煎服. 《東垣》

Translation

Treats the various internal-damage patterns: in spring the mouth bland and tasteless, in summer cold despite the heat, chest and abdomen full and oppressed, hungry yet ever as if sated. Astragalus 2 don; pinellia 1.2 don; katsumada galangal seed 0.8 don; medicated leaven, Korean angelica, tangerine peel, and ginseng, 0.6 don each; cimicifuga, bupleurum, and licorice, 0.4 don each; phellodendron 0.3 don. Cut the above, make one packet, add 3 slices of ginger, decoct in water and take. — Dongwon 東垣 (Donguibogam · Naesang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Dongyuan's most phenomenological indication — the patient for whom spring has no flavor and summer no warmth, hungry and somehow full. The sunken Yang has unplugged them from the calendar; astragalus at double rank and the two lifters plug them back in. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.