Formulas · Regulate Qi 理氣 · Uihak Gangmok (醫學綱目)

Divinely Effective Gardenia Powder

Sinhyo-woldo-san

한글 신효월도산 · Pinyin Shen Xiao Yue Tao San

神效越桃散

越桃 is an old name for 梔子, gardenia.

Composition 構成

Chija Zhi Zi
梔子 치자 · Gardenia

12 g
Chief 君

large gardenia kernels
Yangang Gao Liang Jiang
良薑 양강 · Lesser Galangal

12 g
Chief 君

Total 24 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Treats dysentery with fullness and pain within the abdomen beyond bearing
named yin and yang crossed in error
the disharmony being severe

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Yin and yang reversed with griping abdominal pain
Dysentery with intractable pain

Biomedical correlates

Dysentery with severe colic

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治下痢腹中滿痛不可忍, 此名陰陽反錯, 不和之甚. 大梔子仁ㆍ良薑各三錢. 右爲末, 米飮調下二三錢. 《綱目》

Translation

Treats dysentery with fullness and pain within the abdomen beyond bearing; this is called yin and yang crossed in error, the disharmony being severe. Large gardenia kernels and lesser galangal, 3 don each. Powder, and take 2 or 3 don stirred into rice water. — Uihak Gangmok 綱目 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Two drugs of exactly opposite nature in exactly equal weight — gardenia bitter and cold, galangal pungent and hot — for the pain the Gangmok calls yin and yang crossed in error. The construction is the diagnosis: when hot and cold are tangled, give both and let them sort themselves. It is the same reasoning as the ginger-and-tea decoction and the raw-and-cooked drink, and it reflects a tradition that had names for the state of not knowing. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.