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Atractylodes Lancea Alone Pill

Dansangchul-hwan

한글 단창출환  ·  Pinyin Dan Cang Zhu Wan

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Composition 構成

Total 880 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

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Damp taken regularly over time
  • Damp depressed into heat rising from the feet

Biomedical correlates

  • Chronic damp conditions
  • Lower limb heaviness

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

常服, 除濕, 壯筋骨, 明目. 蒼朮 一斤, 米泔浸剉曬乾. 半斤以童便浸一宿, 半斤酒浸一宿, 幷焙乾爲末. 神麴糊和丸菉豆大, 白湯下七十丸. 或加白茯苓 六兩, 尤好. 《入門》 或爲末, 每二錢, 空心, 鹽湯或酒調下, 亦得. 《入門》

Translation

Taken regularly it eliminates damp, strengthens the sinews and bones, and brightens the eyes. Atractylodes lancea 1 geun, steeped in rice-washing water, cut and sun-dried; half a geun steeped overnight in child's urine and half in wine, both then dry-roasted and powdered. Make pills with medicated leaven paste the size of a mung bean, and take seventy down with plain hot water. Six nyang of white poria may be added, which is better still. Or powder it and take 2 don on an empty stomach stirred into salt decoction or wine. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Seup)

Clinical commentary 臨床

One medicinal processed two ways in the same preparation: half the geun steeped in child's urine and half in wine. Urine is salty and cold and directs downward; wine is acrid and warm and directs outward. The finished pill therefore carries the same medicinal in two directions at once. That technique appears nowhere else in the chapters translated so far, and it is the clearest instance of processing being used to widen a single medicinal's reach rather than to moderate it. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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