Formulas · Tonify Qi 補氣 · Donguibogam · Naesang

Great Harmony Pill

Taehwa-hwan

한글 태화환 · Pinyin Tai He Wan

太和丸

Pill formula, bulk amounts: powdered, and a paste struck from aged rice cooked with a lotus-leaf decoction binds the pills. The source notes that where longan flesh is unavailable, alpinia may be substituted.

Composition 構成

Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

160 g
Chief 君 earth-fried
Baekbokryeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

100 g
Deputy 臣
Baekjakyak Bai Shao
白芍藥 백작약 · White Peony

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

100 g
Deputy 臣 dry-fried
Maea Mai Ya
麥芽 맥아 · Barley Sprout

100 g
Deputy 臣 dry-fried
Hyangbuja Xiang Fu
香附子 향부자 · Cyperus

80 g
Assistant 佐 child-urine-fried
Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

80 g
Assistant 佐
Jisil Zhi Shi
枳實 지실 · Immature Bitter Orange

80 g
Assistant 佐
Yonganyuk Long Yan Rou
龍眼肉 용안육 · Longan

52 g
Assistant 佐
Baekdugu Bai Dou Kou
白豆蔻 백두구 · Round Cardamom

52 g
Assistant 佐
Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

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

40 g
Assistant 佐
Hwangryeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

40 g
Assistant 佐 ginger-juice-fried
Sansa Shan Zha
山楂 산사 · Hawthorn

40 g
Assistant 佐
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

20 g
Assistant 佐
Mokhyang Mu Xiang
木香 목향 · Costus Root

20 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

28 g
Envoy 使 roasted

Total 1140 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

Rebuilds a Spleen and Stomach worn down by long internal damage
Opens the chest and frees the constraint while food is digested and phlegm transformed

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Internal damage with Spleen and Stomach vacuously damaged (脾胃虛損)
No thought of food
the body wasted and the face sallow yellow (肌體羸瘦面色萎黃)
A regulating formula — opens the chest
clears constraint
transforms phlegm
disperses food

Biomedical correlates

Chronic digestive weakness with weight loss
Poor appetite with fatigue and sallow complexion
Long-course digestive restoration

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治內傷, 脾胃虛損, 不思飮食, 肌體羸瘦, 面色萎黃. 開胸快膈, 淸鬱, 化痰, 消食, 調理之劑也. 白朮(土炒) 四兩, 白茯苓ㆍ白芍藥ㆍ神麴(炒)ㆍ麥芽(炒) 各二兩半, 香附(便炒)ㆍ當歸ㆍ枳實各二兩, 龍眼肉 <span class='sochu'>無則益智代之</span>ㆍ白豆蔲各一兩三錢, 半夏一兩二錢, 陳皮ㆍ黃連(薑汁炒)ㆍ山査肉各一兩, 甘草(灸) 七錢, 人參ㆍ木香各五錢. 右爲末, 荷葉煎湯打陳米糊和丸.

Translation

Treats internal damage with the Spleen and Stomach vacuously damaged, no thought of food, the body wasted and the face sallow yellow. It opens the chest and frees the diaphragm, clears constraint, transforms phlegm, disperses food — a regulating preparation. Earth-fried white atractylodes 4 nyang; white poria, white peony, dry-fried medicated leaven, and dry-fried barley sprout, 2 nyang 5 don each; child-urine-fried cyperus, Korean angelica, and unripe bitter orange, 2 nyang each; longan flesh <span class='sochu'>— where unavailable, substitute alpinia —</span> and cardamom, 1 nyang 3 don each; pinellia 1 nyang 2 don; tangerine peel, ginger-juice-fried coptis, and hawthorn flesh, 1 nyang each; roasted licorice 7 don; ginseng and aucklandia, 5 don each. Powder the above and bind with a paste of aged rice struck with a lotus-leaf decoction. — Donguibogam · Naesang

Clinical commentary 臨床

Seventeen herbs and the chapter's most complete statement of what 'regulating' means — the source lists five jobs in a row: open the chest, clear constraint, transform phlegm, disperse food, and put the whole in order. Four ounces of earth-fried atractylodes anchor it. The lotus-leaf-and-aged-rice binder is the same one used for Jichul-hwan, the ancestor of this whole family, and its presence here is a signature. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.