Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Gogeum Uigam (古今醫鑑)

Child's Urine

Dongjanyo

한글 동자뇨 · Pinyin Tong Zi Niao

童子尿

Composition 構成

Dongbyeon Tong Bian
童便 동변 · Child's Urine

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Chief 君

one cup

Total 0 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Downbears fire and enriches the yin
Dissolves stagnant blood
Stops vomiting and nosebleed of blood

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

All vacuity with vomiting
nosebleed and hawking of blood

Biomedical correlates

Bleeding from the upper tract

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

諸虛吐衄咯血藥中, 每入童便一合, 其效甚速. 凡單用, 重湯頓服, 無不效應. 盖溲尿降火, 滋陰, 又能消瘀血, 止吐衄諸血. 先賢有言, 凡諸失血, 服寒涼藥, 十無一生. 服溲尿者, 百無一死, 斯言信矣. 用童便一鍾, 入薑汁二三點, 攪勻, 徐徐服之, 日進二三次爲佳. 《醫鑑》

Translation

Into any medicine for vomiting, nosebleed or hawking of blood in vacuity, put 1 hop of child's urine each time, and the effect is very quick. Used alone, warmed in a double boiler and taken at a draught, it never fails to answer. Urine downbears fire and enriches the yin, and can also dissolve stagnant blood and stop vomiting, nosebleed and all bleeding. The worthies of old said: in any loss of blood, of those who take cold and cooling medicines not one in ten lives, and of those who take urine not one in a hundred dies — and these words are to be believed. Use one cup of child's urine with two or three drops of ginger juice stirred in evenly, take slowly, and two or three times a day is best. — Gogeum Uigam 醫鑑 (Donguibogam · Hyeol)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The chapter's closing argument, and it is a strong one: cold medicines for bleeding kill nine in ten, urine saves ninety-nine in a hundred. The claim is that a substance from the body cools without the harm that mineral and plant cold does. Child's urine runs through the whole of the Blood chapter as a vehicle — Cheongnyuk-tang, Cheonghwajaeum-tang, and the Women chapter's postpartum formulas all use it — and here it is given alone. Urine is sterile when passed and contains urea, which is mildly diuretic; the tradition's confidence in it goes well beyond that. **Ingesting urine carries an infection risk and has no established benefit. Persistent bleeding requires medical assessment.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.