Formulas · Reduce Food Stagnation 消食 · Danggye Simbeop (丹溪心法)

Preserve Harmony Pill

Bohwa-hwan

한글 보화환 · Pinyin Bao He Wan

保和丸

Registered from the Danggye Simbeop before the Accumulations chapter was translated, in decoction weights. Collated with Jeokchwi 1.13.11 and converted to the pill weights the source gives. A second formula of the same name from the Uigam is registered separately at 1.7.8 as bohwa-hwan-uigam. The Jeongjeon variant appended in the source carries poria and forsythia and omits coptis; recorded in the source text rather than registered separately.

Composition 構成

Sansa Shan Zha
山楂 산사 · Hawthorn

40 g
Chief 君 flesh only (山査肉), 1 nyang
Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

20 g
Deputy 臣 ginger-processed (薑製), 5 don
Nabokja Lai Fu Zi
萊菔子 나복자 · Radish Seed

20 g
Deputy 臣蘿葍子, stir-fried (炒)
Hwangryeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

20 g
Assistant 佐 stir-fried (炒)
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

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

12 g
Assistant 佐 stir-fried (炒), 3 don
Maega Mai Ya
麥芽 맥아 · Barley Sprout

8 g
Assistant 佐 stir-fried (炒), 2 don

Total 140 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

Disperses food stagnation of all kinds
Harmonizes the Stomach and clears mild heat from stagnation

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Food stagnation with fullness belching and sour regurgitation
Indigestion after any kind of dietary excess

Biomedical correlates

General overeating indigestion
Childhood food stagnation
Bloating with foul belching

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治食積, 酒積. 山査肉一兩, 半夏(薑製)ㆍ蘿葍子(炒)ㆍ黃連(炒)ㆍ陳皮各五錢, 神麴(炒) 三錢, 麥芽(炒) 二錢. 右爲末, 神麴糊和丸梧子大. 白湯下五七十丸. 《丹心》一方, 山査五兩, 神麴ㆍ半夏各三兩, 茯苓ㆍ陳皮ㆍ蘿葍子ㆍ連翹ㆍ麥芽(炒) 各一兩. 右末, 別以神麴五兩, 爲末作糊丸服. 《正傳》

Translation

Treats food accumulation and alcohol accumulation. Hawthorn flesh 1 nyang; pinellia (ginger-processed), radish seed (stir-fried), coptis (stir-fried) and tangerine peel 5 don each; medicated leaven (stir-fried) 3 don; barley sprout (stir-fried) 2 don. Powder them, make pills with medicated leaven paste the size of a firmiana seed, and take fifty to seventy down with plain hot water. One version: hawthorn 5 nyang, medicated leaven and pinellia 3 nyang each, poria, tangerine peel, radish seed, forsythia and barley sprout (stir-fried) 1 nyang each; powder, and separately powder 5 nyang of medicated leaven to make the paste for the pills. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Jeokchwi)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The parent of the food-reducing family and the base from which Daean-hwan, Jwabi-hwan and both augmented leaven pills are built. Hawthorn at a nyang leads, with the rest at half that or less, and coptis is the single cooling medicinal — present because food that sits generates heat. Note that this chapter carries two quite different formulas under the name. The Uigam version at 1.7.8 puts five nyang of white atractylodes in front and is aimed at lumps; this one has no supplementing medicinal at all and is aimed at what has just been eaten. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.