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Augmented Hidden Tiger Pill

Gamihojam-hwan

한글 가미호잠환  ·  Pinyin Jia Wei Hu Qian Wan

加味虎潛丸

Pill formula, bulk amounts: powdered and bound with refined honey and boar spinal marrow into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; 100 pills as one pleases with warm wine or salted water. Taken in alternation with Jaeumdaebo-hwan above. Note on modern practice: tiger bone (虎脛骨) is prohibited under CITES and U.S. law; contemporary prescribing omits it, commonly increasing tortoise plastron in its place.

Composition 構成

Total 670 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

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Dual Qi-Blood detriment on the Hidden Tiger pattern
  • Sinew-bone debility with heat in mixed depletion
  • The Yang-firming half of an alternating regimen with Jaeumdaebo-hwan

Biomedical correlates

  • Lower-limb weakness with chronic heat signs
  • Mixed fatigue-and-wasting presentations
  • Long-course alternating maintenance

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治同上. 熟地黃 四兩, 牛膝 二兩, 人參ㆍ黃芪ㆍ白芍藥(炒)ㆍ黃柏(酒浸炒)ㆍ當歸ㆍ山藥 各一兩, 破故紙(炒)ㆍ杜沖(炒)ㆍ五味子 各七錢半, 兎絲子ㆍ龜板ㆍ虎脛骨(幷酒浸一宿酥灸黃)ㆍ枸杞子ㆍ𤨏陽(酥灸) 各五錢. 右爲末, 煉蜜和猪脊髓爲丸梧子大. 每百丸, 溫酒, 鹽湯任下. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats the same as the above. Prepared rehmannia 4 nyang; achyranthes 2 nyang; ginseng, astragalus, dry-fried white peony, wine-soaked-and-fried phellodendron, Korean angelica, and dioscorea, 1 nyang each; dry-fried psoralea, dry-fried eucommia, and schisandra, 7.5 don each; cuscuta, tortoise plastron, tiger shin bone (both soaked in wine overnight and butter-roasted to yellow), lycium fruit, and butter-roasted cynomorium, 5 don each. Powder the above and bind with refined honey and boar spinal marrow into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; take 100 pills each time, with warm wine or salted water as one pleases. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Heoro)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Hojam-hwan's third appearance in the chapter, now with ginseng and astragalus written in — the fierce plastron-and-phellodendron frame finally given a Qi engine, built to alternate with its warm-moist partner so neither pole of the depleted patient goes unfed. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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