Formulas · Tonify Yin 補陰 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Pagoda Tree Seed and Ox Gall Pill

Goedam-hwan

한글 괴담환 · Pinyin Huai Dan Wan

槐膽丸

The source gives no weights, the dose being counted in seeds; the salt clay is the lute for the jar and is not an ingredient.

Composition 構成

Goegakja Huai Jiao Zi
槐角子 괴각자 · Pagoda Tree Fruit

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Chief 君

槐實, gathered on the first snake day of the tenth month, buried, husked, the black seeds taken
Udamjeup Niu Dan Zhi
牛膽汁 우담즙 · Ox Bile

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Envoy 使

牛膽, an ox gallbladder to hold the seeds while they dry

Total 0 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 2 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Brightens the eyes and blackens the hair
Firms the teeth and extends the years

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Taken over a long time for longevity
Dim eyes and loose teeth in the ageing

Biomedical correlates

Traditional longevity preparation
Recorded as a historical preparation

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

槐膽丸, 明目黑髮固齒延年. 十月上巳日採槐實, 納陶缸中封口, 鹽泥固濟, 埋背陰墻下掘三尺土中, 至臘月初八日取出, 去皮取黑子, 裝在牛膽內高懸陰乾, 至次年淸明日取出, 每日空心白湯呑下一粒, 二日二粒, 漸加至十五粒, 以後每日減一粒, 周而復始. 《入門》

Translation

Goedam-hwan, which brightens the eyes, blackens the hair, firms the teeth and extends the years: on the first snake day of the tenth month gather pagoda tree fruit, put it into an earthenware jar and seal the mouth, lute it tight with salt clay, and bury it three feet down in the earth at the foot of a north-facing wall; on the eighth day of the twelfth month take it out, remove the husks and take the black seeds, pack them inside an ox gallbladder and hang it high to dry in the shade; on the Clear and Bright day of the following year take it out, and each morning on an empty stomach swallow one seed, two on the second day, increasing gradually to fifteen, and thereafter reducing by one a day, round and round again. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Sinhyeong)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The most elaborate calendar in the Bogam: gathered on a named day in the tenth month, buried at the foot of a north wall, lifted on the eighth of the twelfth month, hung inside an ox gallbladder until the Clear and Bright festival the next spring — five months underground and three in the gall. Then a dose that climbs from one seed to fifteen and comes back down, 周而復始, round and round again. The simple beside it supplies the warrant: 槐者虛星之精, the pagoda tree is the essence of the star Xu, so a tree assigned to a constellation gets a drug timed by the calendar. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.