Formulas · Tonify Yin 補陰 · Danggye Simbeop (丹溪心法)

Lycium and Poria Pill

Giryeong-hwan

한글 기령환 · Pinyin Qi Ling Wan

杞苓丸

The Bogam specifies the poria as half red and half white; the registered white-poria entry stands for both here.

Composition 構成

Baekbokryeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

80 g
Chief 君

4 nyang
Gugija Gou Qi Zi
枸杞子 구기자 · Goji Berry

80 g
Chief 君

2 nyang
Tosaja Tu Si Zi
菟絲子 토사자 · Cuscuta

40 g
Deputy 臣

1 nyang
Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

40 g
Deputy 臣

1 nyang
Cheongyeom Qing Yan
靑鹽 청염 · Blue Rock Salt

20 g
Envoy 使

5 don

Total 260 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

Treats kidney vacuity with the eyes dim
gradually becoming an internal obstruction

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Kidney vacuity with progressive dimming

Biomedical correlates

Early cataract

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治腎虛眼目昏暗, 漸成內障. 茯苓四兩(半赤半白)ㆍ枸杞子(酒浸) 二兩, 菟絲子(酒製)ㆍ當歸各一兩, 靑鹽五錢. 右爲末, 蜜丸梧子大, 空心溫水下五七十丸. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats kidney vacuity with the eyes dim, gradually becoming an internal obstruction. Poria 4 nyang, half red and half white; lycium fruit (wine-steeped) 2 nyang; cuscuta (wine-processed) and Korean angelica 1 nyang each; blue salt 5 don. Powder them, make honey pills the size of parasol-tree seeds, and take fifty to seventy on an empty stomach with warm water. — Danggye Simbeop 丹心 (Donguibogam · An)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Five medicinals, and poria leads at four nyang — half red and half white, which is Danggye taking both the draining and the quieting action of the same drug at once. Against the twenty-drug formulas beside it this is the small one, for an eye only beginning to dim. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.