Formulas · Warm the Interior 溫裏 · Immun (入門)

Regulate the Middle Decoction

Ijung-tang

한글 이중탕 · Pinyin Li Zhong Tang

理中湯

Composition 構成

Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

8 g
Chief 君
Geongang Gan Jiang
乾薑 건강 · Dried Ginger

8 g
Chief 君

blast-fried
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

8 g
Deputy 臣
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

4 g
Envoy 使

roasted

Total 28 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

Warms the middle burner and strengthens the spleen
Stops abdominal pain and spontaneous diarrhoea

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Taiyin disease with abdominal pain and spontaneous diarrhoea and no thirst
Cold depletion of the spleen and stomach

Biomedical correlates

Chronic diarrhoea from cold
Functional dyspepsia with abdominal pain

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治太陰腹痛ㆍ自利ㆍ不渴. 人參ㆍ白朮ㆍ乾薑(炮) 各二錢, 甘草(灸) 一錢. 右剉, 作一貼, 水煎服. 《入門》

Translation

Treats taiyin abdominal pain, spontaneous diarrhoea and absence of thirst. Ginseng, atractylodes and blast-fried dried ginger, 2 don each; roasted licorice, 1 don. Cut up, make one packet and decoct in water. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Han, upper)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Four drugs and the base of a whole family — the Bogam prints seven derivatives of it in this chapter alone. Absence of thirst is the diagnostic hinge: diarrhoea with thirst points to heat or to water bound below, and diarrhoea without it points to cold in the middle, which is what this formula answers. Blast-fried dried ginger warms without the dispersing edge of the fresh root, and ginseng with atractylodes rebuilds what the cold has been draining. Everything else in the family is this plus one adjustment. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.