Formulas · Reduce Food Stagnation 消食 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Mume and Alum Pill

Obaek-hwan

한글 오백환 · Pinyin Wu Bai Wan

烏白丸

Composition 構成

Omae Wu Mei
烏梅 오매 · Mume Plum

160 g
Chief 君 flesh only (烏梅肉), 4 nyang
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

160 g
Chief 君 4 nyang
Baekban Bai Fan
白礬 백반 · Alum

80 g
Deputy 臣 2 nyang
Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

80 g
Deputy 臣 2 nyang; the four pounded together, pressed between new tiles and dry-roasted three days and nights
Singok Shen Qu
神麴 신곡 · Medicated Leaven

40 g
Assistant 佐
Maega Mai Ya
麥芽 맥아 · Barley Sprout

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

40 g
Assistant 佐
Cheongpi Qing Pi
靑皮 청피 · Green Tangerine Peel

40 g
Assistant 佐
Bongchul E Zhu
莪朮 봉출 · Zedoary

40 g
Assistant 佐蓬朮
Jeonghyangpi Ding Xiang Pi
丁香皮 정향피 · Clove Bark

40 g
Assistant 佐
Binrang Bing Lang
檳榔 빈랑 · Areca Seed

40 g
Assistant 佐大腹子
Jigak Zhi Qiao
枳殼 지각 · Bitter Orange

40 g
Assistant 佐

Total 800 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 alcohol accumulation
Dissolves phlegm and food together

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Alcohol accumulation with phlegm
Food not moving after drinking

Biomedical correlates

Alcohol-related dyspepsia with phlegm

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治酒積, 消痰食. 烏梅肉ㆍ生薑各四兩, 白礬ㆍ半夏各二兩, 搗勻, 以新瓦夾定, 火焙三日夜, 入神麴ㆍ麥芽ㆍ陳皮ㆍ靑皮ㆍ蓬朮ㆍ丁香皮ㆍ大腹子ㆍ枳殼各一兩. 右爲末, 酒糊和丸梧子大. 薑湯下五十丸. 《入門》

Translation

Treats alcohol accumulation and disperses phlegm and food. Mume flesh and fresh ginger 4 nyang each; alum and pinellia 2 nyang each — pound the four evenly, press between new tiles and dry-roast three days and nights; then add medicated leaven, barley sprout, tangerine peel, green tangerine peel, curcuma, clove bark, areca seed and bitter orange 1 nyang each. Powder them, make pills with wine paste the size of a firmiana seed, and take fifty down with ginger decoction. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Jeokchwi)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Named for its two chief medicinals, mume and alum. The three-day roasting between tiles is the formula's distinguishing step: four medicinals are pounded together and cooked slowly as one mass, so that the alum's harshness and pinellia's acridity are worked into the sour mume and ginger before anything else joins them. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.