Formulas · Tonify Qi 補氣 · Seui Deukhyobang (世醫得效方)

Stomach Wind Decoction

Wipung-tang

한글 위풍탕 · Pinyin Wei Feng Tang

胃風湯

Composition 構成

Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

4 g
Chief 君
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

4 g
Chief 君
Jeokbokryeong Chi Fu Ling
赤茯苓 적복령 · Poria (red)

4 g
Deputy 臣
Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

4 g
Deputy 臣
Cheongung Chuan Xiong
川芎 천궁 · Cnidium

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

4 g
Deputy 臣
Yukgye Rou Gui
肉桂 육계 · Cinnamon Bark

4 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

4 g
Envoy 使
Songmi Su Mi
粟米 속미 · Foxtail Millet

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Envoy 使

a pinch

Total 32 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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

Treats damp toxin in the stomach and intestine with abdominal pain and diarrhoea
Stops stool like black-bean juice or stagnant blood passed below

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Damp toxin lodged in the intestines
Intestinal wind with bloody stool

Biomedical correlates

Melaena
Bacillary dysentery
Inflammatory bowel disease

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治腸胃濕毒, 腹痛泄瀉, 下如黑豆汁, 或下瘀血. 人參ㆍ白朮ㆍ赤茯苓ㆍ當歸ㆍ川芎ㆍ白芍藥ㆍ桂皮ㆍ甘草各一錢. 右剉, 作一貼, 入粟米一撮, 水煎服. 《得效》

Translation

Treats damp toxin in the intestine and stomach, with abdominal pain and diarrhoea, the stool passed like black-bean juice, or stagnant blood passed below. Ginseng, white atractylodes, red poria, tangkuei, chuanxiong, white peony, cassia bark and licorice, 1 don each. Cut up, make one packet, add a pinch of foxtail millet and decoct in water. — Seui Deukhyobang 得效 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The chapter's opening formula and its most striking indication: stool like black-bean juice. That is melaena described exactly — the black tarry stool of upper gastrointestinal bleeding — and the Bogam puts it beside frank blood as two grades of the same thing. The formula itself is the Four Gentlemen's base with the blood quartet of tangkuei, chuanxiong and peony added and cassia bark to warm, so it treats the bleeding as a cold-damp injury of the bowel rather than an acute haemorrhage. For a true melaena this is not treatment; for the chronic bloody diarrhoea the chapter calls intestinal wind it is a reasonable warming and blood-nourishing prescription. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.