Formulas · Regulate Qi 理氣 · Jikji (直指)

Heal the Pain Pill

Chotong-won

한글 추통원  ·  Pinyin Chou Tong Yuan

瘳痛元

Composition 構成

Total 140 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 2 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Small intestine and bladder qi pain

Biomedical correlates

  • Inguinal hernia pain

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治小腸膀胱氣痛. 玄胡索 一兩, 川練肉ㆍ茴香(炒) 各五錢, 白丑頭末(炒)ㆍ當歸ㆍ良薑ㆍ靑皮ㆍ木香ㆍ烏藥 各二錢半, 全蝎(焙) 七箇. 右爲末, 薑汁浸蒸餠和丸梧子大, 燒綿灰調酒送下三五十丸. 《直指》

Translation

Treats pain of the small intestine and bladder qi. Corydalis 1 nyang; toosendan flesh and fennel (stir-fried) 5 don each; the first powder of white morning-glory seed (stir-fried), angelica, lesser galangal, green tangerine peel, costus and lindera 2 don 5 pun each; seven scorpions, baked. Powder them, bind with steamed bread soaked in ginger juice into pills the size of a firmiana seed, and take thirty to fifty with wine in which the ash of burnt cotton wool has been stirred. — Jikji 直指 (Donguibogam · Jeoneum)

Clinical commentary 臨床

**Contains scorpion, which is toxic.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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