Nourish the Stomach and Advance Food Decoction

Yangwijinsik-tang

한글 양위진식탕 · Pinyin Yang Wei Jin Shi Tang

養胃進食湯

Source annotation 《必用》 refers to the Uibang Piryong 醫方必用; no prior entry in this database uses this source.

Composition 構成

Changchul Cang Zhu
蒼朮 창출 · Black Atractylodes

8 g
Chief 君
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

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

4 g
Chief 君
Baekbokryeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

2.8 g
Deputy 臣
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

2.8 g
Assistant 佐
Hubak Hou Po
厚朴 후박 · Magnolia Bark

2.8 g
Assistant 佐
Singok Shen Qu
神麴 신곡 · Medicated Leaven

2 g
Assistant 佐

stir-fried (炒)
Maega Mai Ya
麥芽 맥아 · Barley Sprout

2 g
Assistant 佐

stir-fried (炒)
Daejo Da Zao
大棗 대조 · Jujube

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

6 g
Envoy 使
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

2.8 g
Envoy 使

mix-fried (灸)
Bongmil Feng Mi
蜂蜜 봉밀 · Honey

—
Envoy 使

for binding, if made as pills

Total 45.2 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 spleen-stomach vacuity weakness with food not advancing
a yellow face and wasted flesh
oppression of chest and diaphragm
undigested food
belching and acid swallowing

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Spleen and stomach vacuous and weak — food will not go down
the face yellow and the flesh thin
the chest oppressed
food undigested
belching and sour regurgitation

Biomedical correlates

Chronic dyspepsia with anorexia and weight loss

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治脾胃虛弱, 飮食不進, 面黃肌瘦, 胸膈痞悶, 食不消化, 或噫氣呑酸. 蒼朮二錢, 人參ㆍ白朮各一錢, 陳皮ㆍ厚朴ㆍ白茯苓ㆍ甘草(灸) 各七分, 神麴(炒)ㆍ麥芽(炒) 各五分. 右剉, 作一貼, 薑三片, 棗二枚, 同煎服. 或爲末, 蜜和作丸梧子大, 每二錢, 米飮下. 《必用》

Translation

Treats the spleen and stomach vacuous and weak, with food not advancing, a yellow face and wasted flesh, oppression and stuffiness of chest and diaphragm, food undigested, and perhaps belching and acid swallowing. Atractylodes lancea 2 don; ginseng and white atractylodes 1 don each; tangerine peel, magnolia bark, white poria and licorice (mix-fried) 7 pun each; medicated leaven (stir-fried) and barley sprout (stir-fried) 5 pun each. Cut up, make one packet, and decoct with 3 slices of ginger and 2 jujubes; or powder it, bind with honey into pills the size of a firmiana seed, and take 2 don at a time with rice water. — Piryong 必用 (Donguibogam · Wibu)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Pyeongwi-san and Sagunja-tang combined, with leaven and malt to digest. The section's three formulas are a ladder: Pyeongwi-san for the full stomach, Igong-san for the empty one, and this for the empty stomach that also will not take food in — 飮食不進, the sign named in the formula's title. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.