Formulas · Tonify Yin 補陰 · Mangye (回春)

Supplement Heaven Great Creation Pill

Bocheondaejo-hwan

한글 보천대조환  ·  Pinyin Bu Tian Da Zao Wan

補天大造丸

Pill formula, bulk amounts: powdered, the placenta added and pounded together — the source says by many hands at once — and formed into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; 100 pills with thin rice water or warm wine, twice daily. **Note on modern practice: human placenta is not used in contemporary practice in the United States for regulatory and safety reasons; this entry is recorded for textual and historical completeness only.**

Composition 構成

Total 1052 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

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Vexing heat of the five hearts from bedroom excess in the taxed (房室過度 五心煩熱)
  • Deep depletion of both Yin and Yang
  • Long-course restoration and life-lengthening

Biomedical correlates

  • Chronic depletion with night heat
  • Sexual exhaustion with fatigue
  • Long-term constitutional restoration

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

壯陽光, 滋腎水, 爲天地交泰. 若虛勞之人, 房室過度, 五心煩熱, 服之神效, 久服延年益壽. 紫河車 一具(照前法蒸), 熟地黃ㆍ當歸(酒洗)ㆍ茴香(酒炒)ㆍ黃柏(酒炒)ㆍ白朮(炒) 各二兩, 生乾地黃(酒炒)ㆍ天門冬ㆍ麥門冬ㆍ牛膝(酒洗)ㆍ杜沖(炒) 各一兩半, 枸杞子ㆍ五味子 各七錢, 陳皮ㆍ乾薑 各二錢, 側柏葉(向東枝者焙) 二兩. 右爲末, 入河車共擣, 衆手爲丸梧子大. 米飮或溫酒任下百丸, 日再服. 《回春》

Translation

Strengthens the original Yang and enriches the Kidney water, so that Heaven and Earth meet in peace. Where a person of taxation detriment has gone to excess in the bedchamber and has vexing heat of the five hearts, taking it has a spirit-level effect; taken long, it extends the years. One placenta, steamed by the method above; prepared rehmannia, wine-washed Korean angelica, wine-fried fennel, wine-fried phellodendron, and dry-fried white atractylodes, 2 nyang each; wine-fried dried raw rehmannia, asparagus root, ophiopogon, wine-washed achyranthes, and dry-fried eucommia, 1 nyang 5 don each; lycium fruit and schisandra, 7 don each; tangerine peel and dried ginger, 2 don each; arborvitae leaf from east-facing branches, baked, 2 nyang. Powder the above, add the placenta and pound together, and with many hands form pills the size of parasol-tree seeds. Take 100 pills with thin rice water or warm wine, twice daily. — Hoechun 回春 (Donguibogam · Heoro)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The name states the ambition: to supplement Heaven itself. Its stated aim is that Yang above and water below should meet — the hexagram of peace, in which Heaven and Earth have changed places and communicate. The arborvitae leaf specified from east-facing branches is the kind of detail this formulary insists on, and the instruction that many hands pound the pills together suggests a preparation made as an occasion rather than a task. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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