Seven Immortals Elixir

Chilseon-dan

한글 칠선단 · Pinyin Qi Xian Dan

七仙丹

Composition 構成

Hasuo He Shou Wu
何首烏 하수오 · Fleeceflower Root

150 g
Chief 君 steamed and sun-dried nine times
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

75 g
Deputy 臣
Saengjihwang Sheng Di Huang
生地黃 생지황 · Raw Rehmannia

75 g
Deputy 臣生乾地黃, wine washed
Sukjihwang Shu Di Huang
熟地黃 숙지황 · Prepared Rehmannia

75 g
Deputy 臣
Maekmundong Mai Men Dong
麥門冬 맥문동 · Liriope

75 g
Assistant 佐
Cheonmundong Tian Men Dong
天門冬 천문동 · Asparagus Root

75 g
Assistant 佐
Baekbokryeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

75 g
Assistant 佐
Hoehyang Hui Xiang
茴香 회향 · Fennel Fruit

75 g
Envoy 使 dry-fried

Total 675 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 Heart and Kidney
Preserves the complexion
Blackens the beard and hair

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Greying with Heart and Kidney depletion
Withered complexion with hair change
Yin insufficiency of the upper and lower

Biomedical correlates

Age-related greying
Constitutional depletion with hair and skin change

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

補心腎, 駐容顔, 黑鬚髮之聖藥. 何首烏(九蒸九曬) 四兩, 人參ㆍ生乾地黃(酒洗)ㆍ熟地黃ㆍ麥門冬ㆍ天門冬ㆍ白茯苓ㆍ茴香(炒) 各二兩. 右爲末, 蜜丸彈子大, 每一丸, 細嚼, 好酒送下, 鹽湯亦可. 或丸如梧子, 每五七十丸, 空心, 酒下. 忌食三白及犯房事. 《丹心》

Translation

A sagely medicine that supplements Heart and Kidney, arrests the complexion, and blackens the beard and hair. Fleeceflower root (steamed and sun-dried nine times) 4 nyang; ginseng, raw dried rehmannia (wine washed), prepared rehmannia, ophiopogon, asparagus, white poria, and fennel (dry-fried) 2 nyang each. Powder the above, form into honey pills the size of a bullet, and chew one thoroughly, sending it down with good wine or salt decoction. Or make firmiana-seed pills and take 50 to 70 on an empty stomach with wine. Avoid the three whites and refrain from bedroom affairs. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Mobal)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The cleanest and most usable formula in this section — eight herbs, all still in the modern dispensary, with nothing prohibited or toxic in it. The pairing of asparagus with ophiopogon covers Lung and Heart yin while fleeceflower root and the two rehmannias cover Liver and Kidney, and the single dry-fried fennel keeps the whole from being cloying. The three whites to be avoided are radish, scallion, and garlic, the standing dietary restriction alongside fleeceflower root in Korean practice; the same caution about prolonged use and liver function applies here as with Sinseonoun-dan. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.