Formulas · Regulate Qi 理氣 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Chuanxiong and Lindera Powder

Gungo-san

한글 궁오산 · Pinyin Xiong Wu San

芎烏散

Composition 構成

Cheongung Chuan Xiong
川芎 천궁 · Cnidium

8 g
Chief 君

equal parts
Oyak Wu Yao
烏藥 오약 · Lindera

8 g
Chief 君

equal parts
Ju Jiu
酒 주 · Wine

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Envoy 使

wine quenched with a heated steelyard weight, as the draught

Total 16 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

Treats qi reversal headache
and also headache after childbirth

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Qi reversal headache; postpartum headache

Biomedical correlates

Headache
Postpartum headache

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

川芎ㆍ烏藥各等分. 右爲末, 每二錢, 以燒稱錘淬酒調服. 亦治産後頭痛. 《入門》

Translation

Chuanxiong and lindera in equal parts. Powder them and take 2 don at a time stirred into wine quenched with a heated steelyard weight. It also treats headache after childbirth. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Du)

Clinical commentary 臨床

燒稱錘淬酒 — wine quenched with a red-hot steelyard weight. Iron heated and plunged into wine is the tradition's way of making a draught that descends, and the Ear chapter's iron-filings wine works on the same idea. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.