Formulas · Tonify Yin 補陰 · Dansim (丹心)
Supplement the Yin Pill
Boeum-hwan
한글 보음환 · Pinyin Bu Yin Wan
Pill formula, bulk amounts: powdered, worked with refined honey and three strips of pork spinal marrow, blended evenly into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; 80–90 pills on an empty stomach with salted water or warm wine. Distinct from the Immun's Boeum-hwan of the Vacuity Taxation chapter — same name, different formula. The formula's preamble is its doctrine: in humankind the Yin is constantly insufficient and the Yang constantly in surplus — therefore constantly supplement the Yin, that Yin and Yang stand level and there be no illness; hence the medicine that supplements Yin, from youth to old age, may not be lacking.
Composition 構成
- Sukjihwang熟地黃 숙지황 · Prepared Rehmannia200 g
Chief 君 - Hwangbaek黃柏 황백 · Phellodendron120 g
Deputy 臣 salt-wine-fried to brown - Jimo知母 지모 · Anemarrhena120 g
Deputy 臣 wine-fried - Gupan龜板 구판 · Tortoise Plastron120 g
Deputy 臣 butter-roasted - Soeyang鎖陽 쇄양 · Cynomorium80 g
Assistant 佐 butter-roasted - Gugija枸杞子 구기자 · Goji Berry80 g
Assistant 佐 - Baekjakyak白芍藥 백작약 · White Peony80 g
Assistant 佐 wine-fried - Cheonmundong天門冬 천문동 · Asparagus Root80 g
Assistant 佐 - Omija五味子 오미자 · Schisandra40 g
Assistant 佐 - Geongang乾薑 건강 · Dried Ginger16 g
Envoy 使 fried to purple; 24g in winter cold
Total 936 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
- Supplements the Yin that is always insufficient against the Yang that is always in surplus
- Provisions the lifelong campaign from youth to age
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Yin vacuity with fire stirring (陰虛火動)
- Constitutional Yin insufficiency requiring standing supplementation
- The lifelong-maintenance doctrine in pill form
Biomedical correlates
- Long-term support for depleted-heat constitutions
- Chronic Yin-deficient presentations
- Standing restorative therapy
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治陰虛火動. 凡人陰常不足, 陽常有餘, 故常補其陰, 使陰與陽齊, 則無病矣. 故補陰之藥, 自少至老, 不可缺也. 熟地黃 五兩, 黃柏(鹽酒炒褐色)ㆍ知母(酒炒)ㆍ龜板(酥灸) 各三兩, 鎖陽(酥灸)ㆍ枸杞子ㆍ白芍藥(酒炒)ㆍ天門冬 各二兩, 五味子 一兩, 乾薑(炒紫色) 四錢 <span class='sochu'>冬寒加至六錢</span>. 右爲末, 煉蜜入猪脊髓三條, 和勻丸如梧子, 每取八九十丸, 空心, 鹽湯或溫酒下. 《丹心》
Translation
Treats Yin vacuity with fire stirring. In humankind the Yin is constantly insufficient and the Yang constantly in surplus: therefore constantly supplement the Yin, so that Yin stands level with Yang, and there is no illness — hence the medicine that supplements the Yin, from youth to old age, may not be lacking. Prepared rehmannia 5 nyang; phellodendron (salt-and-wine-fried to brown), wine-fried anemarrhena, and butter-roasted turtle plastron, 3 nyang each; butter-roasted cynomorium, lycium fruit, wine-fried white peony, and asparagus root, 2 nyang each; schisandra 1 nyang; dried ginger fried to purple, 4 don — increased to 6 in winter cold. Powder the above, work refined honey and three strips of pork spinal marrow in evenly, and form pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; take 80–90 on an empty stomach with salted water or warm wine. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Hwa)