Green Maid Pill

Cheongah-won

한글 청아원 · Pinyin Qing E Yuan

靑娥元

Powdered; 2.5 nyang of fresh ginger is pressed for its juice and mixed with refined honey to bind pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; 100 pills on an empty stomach with warm wine or salted broth.

Composition 構成

Duchung Du Zhong
杜仲 두충 · Eucommia Bark

160 g
Chief 君 ginger-juice-fried
Bogolji Bu Gu Zhi
補骨脂 보골지 · Psoralea

160 g
Chief 君 dry-fried
Hodoyuk Hu Tao Rou
胡桃肉 호도육 · Walnut Flesh

120 g
Deputy 臣 30 kernels

Total 440 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 Kidney and stops the lumbar ache that does not let up
Works through three ingredients bound with ginger juice and honey

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Kidney vacuity lumbar pain (治腎虛腰痛)
A long drawn-out ache with no flare and no remission
Low back weakness with cold

Biomedical correlates

Chronic low back pain with fatigue
Age-related lumbar weakness
Long-course supportive therapy

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治腎虛腰痛. 杜沖(薑汁炒)ㆍ破故紙(炒) 各四兩, 胡桃肉三十箇. 右爲末, 生薑二兩半取汁, 入煉蜜和丸梧子大, 空心, 溫酒或鹽湯呑下百丸. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats Kidney vacuity lumbar pain. Ginger-juice-fried eucommia and dry-fried psoralea, 4 nyang each; walnut kernels, 30. Powder the above; press 2.5 nyang of fresh ginger for its juice, add refined honey, and bind into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; take 100 pills on an empty stomach with warm wine or salted broth. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Yo)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The chapter's most-used Kidney vacuity formula, and the simplest — eucommia and psoralea, the two herbs that recur through every section of this chapter, with walnut kernels to bind and enrich. The name is said to come from a story about a young woman restored to vigor by it. What makes it a first choice is that it does nothing else: no moving, no clearing, only filling the ground that the chapter says must be filled before anything else will hold. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.