Formulas · Regulate Qi 理氣 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Birthwort Root Pill

Cheongmokhyang-won

한글 청목향원 · Pinyin Qing Mu Xiang Yuan

靑木香元

Composition 構成

Gyeonuja Qian Niu Zi
牽牛子 견우자 · Morning Glory Seed (strong)

120 g
Chief 君

黑丑頭末, the first powder, 3 nyang
Cheongmokhyang Qing Mu Xiang
靑木香 청목향 · Birthwort Root

40 g
Chief 君

1 nyang
Bogolji Bu Gu Zhi
補骨脂 보골지 · Psoralea

80 g
Deputy 臣

2 nyang
Pilbal Bi Ba
蓽撥 필발 · Long Pepper

80 g
Deputy 臣

蓽澄茄, 2 nyang
Binrang Bing Lang
檳榔 빈랑 · Areca Seed

80 g
Deputy 臣

2 nyang
Yeom Yan
鹽 염 · Salt

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Envoy 使

salt decoction as the draught

Total 400 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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 cold mounting
and bladder mounting qi with swelling

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Cold mounting with scrotal swelling

Biomedical correlates

Inguinal hernia
Hydrocele

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治寒疝及膀胱疝氣腫. 黑丑頭末三兩, 破故紙ㆍ蓽澄茄ㆍ檳榔各二兩, 靑木香一兩. 右爲末, 水丸梧子大, 空心鹽湯下五十丸. 《入門》

Translation

Treats cold mounting and bladder mounting qi with swelling. The first powder of black morning-glory seed 3 nyang; psoralea, cubeb and areca 2 nyang each; birthwort root 1 nyang. Powder them, make water pills the size of a firmiana seed, and take fifty on an empty stomach with salt decoction. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Jeoneum)

Clinical commentary 臨床

4.6 divides mounting into seven kinds, and the cold one is the first — swelling and pain in the scrotum that eases with warmth. Salt decoction as the draught runs through the chapter, because salt is held to lead medicinals to the kidney. **Birthwort root contains aristolochic acid, which is nephrotoxic and carcinogenic; it is banned in most countries and must be omitted.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.