Formulas · Warm the Interior 溫裏 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Restore the Yang Elixir

Bogyang-dan

한글 복양단 · Pinyin Fu Yang Dan

復陽丹

The hot wine taken after the pills is part of the method, not a vehicle for them.

Composition 構成

Buja Fu Zi
附子 부자 · Prepared Aconite

20 g
Chief 君

blast-fried · toxic
Yuhwang Liu Huang
硫黃 유황 · Sulphur

20 g
Chief 君

toxic
Geongang Gan Jiang
乾薑 건강 · Dried Ginger

4 g
Chief 君
Piljingga Bi Cheng Qie
蓽澄茄 필징가 · Cubeb

20 g
Deputy 臣
Osuyu Wu Zhu Yu
吳茱萸 오수유 · Evodia

20 g
Deputy 臣
Jeongal Quan Xie
全蠍 전갈 · Scorpion (toxic)

20 g
Assistant 佐

toxic
Mokhyang Mu Xiang
木香 목향 · Costus Root

20 g
Envoy 使

Total 124 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

Treats yin toxin with a green face
cold limbs and a sunken pulse
Taken with hot wine after to draw out the sweat

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Yin toxin with cold in the channels
Yang vacuity with cold limbs and a sunken pulse

Biomedical correlates

Circulatory collapse with hypothermia
Peripheral vasoconstriction

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治陰毒面靑ㆍ肢冷ㆍ脉沉. 蓽澄茄ㆍ木香ㆍ吳茱萸ㆍ全蝎ㆍ附子(炮)ㆍ硫黃各五錢, 乾薑一錢. 右爲末, 酒糊和丸梧子大, 薑湯下三十丸, 復以熱酒投之, 取汗. 《入門》

Translation

Treats yin toxin with a green face, cold limbs and a sunken pulse. Cubeb, costus, evodia, whole scorpion, blast-fried aconite and sulphur, 5 don each; dried ginger, 1 don. Powder, make pills the size of a paulownia seed with wine paste, and take thirty with ginger decoction, then follow with hot wine to draw out the sweat. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Han)

Clinical commentary 臨床

A green face with cold limbs and a sunken pulse is central cyanosis with peripheral shutdown, and the formula answers it with every warming drug the pharmacy has: cubeb, evodia, aconite, sulphur, dried ginger, with scorpion to open the channels and costus to move it all. Then hot wine on top to bring the sweat. In a patient whose circulation has failed, driving him to sweat is the wrong direction and the alcohol would make it worse. Sulphur taken internally is toxic and aconite needs no comment; the entry is a record of what was tried. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.