Formulas · Warm the Interior 溫裏 · Uihak Gangmok (醫學綱目)

Warm the Stomach and Transform Phlegm Pill

Onwihwadam-hwan

한글 온위화담환 · Pinyin Wen Wei Hua Tan Wan

溫胃化痰丸

Composition 構成

Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

120 g
Chief 君 processed (製) — 3 nyang
Geongang Gan Jiang
乾薑 건강 · Dried Ginger

80 g
Deputy 臣 blast-fried (炮)
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

80 g
Assistant 佐 dry-roasted (焙)
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

80 g
Assistant 佐

Total 360 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 stomach and transforms cold rheum
Dries dampness in the diaphragm

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Cold rheum and cold phlegm lodged in the diaphragm
Cold in the stomach with no appetite

Biomedical correlates

Cold-pattern gastritis
Chronic dyspepsia with clear vomitus

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治膈間有寒飮, 冷痰. 半夏(製) 三兩, 乾薑(炮)ㆍ白朮(焙)ㆍ陳皮各二兩. 右爲末, 薑汁糊和丸梧子大, 薑湯呑下二三十丸. 《綱目》

Translation

Treats cold rheum and cold phlegm in the diaphragm. Pinellia (processed) 3 nyang; dry ginger (blast-fried), white atractylodes (dry-roasted) and tangerine peel 2 nyang each. Powder them, make pills with ginger juice paste the size of a firmiana seed, and take twenty or thirty down with ginger decoction. — Uihak Gangmok 綱目 (Donguibogam · Damum)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The companion to Warm the Center Pill, and the difference between them is worth noticing. Warm the Center works on the qi dynamic with four acrid peels and gingers; this one adds pinellia and atractylodes and so works on the fluid itself. Ginger appears three times over — dry ginger in the formula, ginger juice in the binder, ginger decoction as the vehicle — which is the classical way of saying that the warmth must reach the medicine at every stage rather than only at the end. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.