Formulas · Reduce Food Stagnation 消食 · Manbyeong Hoechun (萬病回春)

Great Granary Pill

Taechang-hwan

한글 태창환 · Pinyin Tai Cang Wan

太倉丸

Composition 構成

Baekdugu Bai Dou Kou
白豆蔻 백두구 · Round Cardamom

80 g
Chief 君
Sain Sha Ren
砂仁 사인 · Amomum

80 g
Chief 君
Jinchangmi Chen Cang Mi
陳倉米 진창미 · Aged Granary Rice

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Deputy 臣

one seung, dry-fried with yellow earth and the earth then sifted out

Total g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Treats stomach reflux and dysphagia with blockage

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Stomach reflux with the stomach qi unable to hold food
Dysphagia from blockage of the diaphragm

Biomedical correlates

Gastroparesis
Oesophageal obstruction — historical treatment

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治反胃噎膈. 白豆蔲ㆍ縮砂各二兩, 陳倉米一升(黃土炒去土). 右爲末, 薑汁和丸梧子大, 薑湯下百丸. 《回春》

Translation

Treats stomach reflux and dysphagia with blockage. Round cardamom and cardamom, 2 nyang each; old granary rice, 1 seung, dry-fried with yellow earth and the earth then sifted out. Grind to a powder, make pills the size of a paulownia seed with ginger juice, and give a hundred pills down with ginger decoction. — Manbyeong Hoechun 回春 (Donguibogam · Guto)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Three materials and two of them cardamoms. The bulk of the pill is old granary rice roasted in earth, which is to say starch and nothing else: the formula is a vehicle for getting a little aromatic drug and a good deal of digestible carbohydrate into a patient who cannot keep food down. 太倉 is the granary of the body, the stomach, and the name says what the formula is for. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.