Formulas · Tonify Yin 補陰 · Mangye (回春)

Kan and Li After-Completion Pill

Gamrigije-hwan

한글 감리기제환  ·  Pinyin Kan Li Ji Ji Wan

坎离旣濟丸

Pill formula, bulk amounts: powdered and bound with honey into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; 50–60 pills on an empty stomach with salted water. The chapter names its office plainly — the medicine that gathers in the achievement and guards what comes after (收功保後之藥).

Composition 構成

Total 2240 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

  • Yin vacuity fire with taxation detriment (陰虛火動 勞損之疾)
  • Consolidation after the acute campaign is won
  • Long-term maintenance of a recovered Yin

Biomedical correlates

  • Post-recovery maintenance in depleted-heat constitutions
  • Long-course preventive restorative therapy
  • Consolidation after chronic illness

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治陰虛火動, 勞損之疾. 當歸(酒洗) 六兩, 熟地黃ㆍ生地黃(酒洗)ㆍ天門冬ㆍ麥門冬ㆍ山茱萸ㆍ牛膝(酒洗) 各四兩, 白芍藥(酒洗)ㆍ五味子ㆍ山藥ㆍ龜板(酥灸) 各三兩, 知母(酒浸 二兩, 鹽水浸 二兩), 黃柏(酒炒 三兩, 蜜水炒 三兩, 鹽水炒 三兩), 川芎 一兩. 右爲末, 蜜丸梧子大. 空心, 鹽湯下五六十丸. 《回春》

Translation

Treats Yin vacuity with fire stirring, and the illnesses of taxation detriment. Wine-washed Korean angelica 6 nyang; prepared rehmannia, wine-washed raw rehmannia, asparagus root, ophiopogon, cornus, and wine-washed achyranthes, 4 nyang each; wine-washed white peony, schisandra, dioscorea, and butter-roasted turtle plastron, 3 nyang each; anemarrhena — 2 nyang wine-soaked and 2 nyang salt-water-soaked; phellodendron — 3 nyang wine-fried, 3 nyang honey-water-fried, and 3 nyang salt-water-fried; cnidium 1 nyang. Powder the above and bind with honey into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; take 50–60 pills on an empty stomach with salted water. — Hoechun 回春 (Donguibogam · Hwa)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The regimen's finale, named for the hexagram of completion: water above, fire below, every line in its place. Fourteen herbs, the cold pair split three ways and two ways among wine, honey, brine — and angelica at six ounces leading, because what follows a fire is not more cooling but rebuilding. The tradition's answer to a question modern practice still asks badly: what do you give the patient who has recovered? — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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