Formulas · Transform Dampness 化濕 · Seui Deukhyobang (世醫得效方)

Minor Clear the Spleen Decoction

Socheongbi-tang

한글 소청비탕 · Pinyin Xiao Qing Pi Tang

小淸脾湯

Composition 構成

Hubak Hou Po
厚朴 후박 · Magnolia Bark

8 g
Chief 君
Omae Wu Mei
烏梅 오매 · Mume Plum

4 g
Deputy 臣

the flesh only
Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

4 g
Deputy 臣
Cheongpi Qing Pi
靑皮 청피 · Green Tangerine Peel

4 g
Assistant 佐
Yanggang Gao Liang Jiang
良薑 양강 · Lesser Galangal

4 g
Assistant 佐
Chogwa Cao Guo
草果 초과 · Tsaoko Fruit

2 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

2 g
Envoy 使
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

—
Envoy 使

three slices
Daejo Da Zao
大棗 대조 · Jujube

—
Envoy 使

two jujubes

Total g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 2 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Moves the stagnant middle burner
Warms the stomach and transforms phlegm
Astringes and settles the stomach malaria

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Stomach malaria (胃瘧) with cold and heat and good hunger but inability to eat
Propping fullness and abdominal distension after eating with attacks coming daily
Food malaria (食瘧)

Biomedical correlates

Malaria
Relapsing fever with dyspepsia
Functional dyspepsia with periodic fever

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治胃瘧. 厚朴二錢, 烏梅肉ㆍ半夏ㆍ靑皮ㆍ良薑各一錢, 草果ㆍ甘草各五分. 右剉, 作一貼, 薑三棗二, 煎服. 《得效》

Translation

Treats the stomach malaria. Magnolia bark, 2 don; mume flesh, pinellia, green tangerine peel and lesser galangal, 1 don each; tsaoko and licorice, 5 fun each. Cut them up and make one packet, three slices of ginger and two jujubes, decoct and take. — Deukhyo 得效 (Donguibogam · Haehak)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Called the minor Cheongpi, and the name is apt only in part: it keeps the green tangerine peel, magnolia bark, pinellia and tsaoko of the larger formula but drops bupleurum, scutellaria, atractylodes and poria entirely and puts mume flesh and lesser galangal in their place. What is left has no cooling drug at all. It is a warm, aromatic, stagnation-moving formula with magnolia bark doubled at the head of it. That makes it the right alternative where Cheongpi-eum would be too cold — the stomach malaria the chapter describes as good hunger with inability to eat, propping fullness after eating, and attacks that come every day. Mume is the chapter's recurring astringent in this disease and appears here beside lesser galangal rather than beside dichroa, so the formula settles the stomach without any attempt to break the paroxysm. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.