Formulas · Transform Dampness 化濕 · Manbyeong Hoechun (萬病回春)

Nine Immortals Numinous Response Powder

Gusinnyeongeung-san

한글 구선령응산 · Pinyin Jiu Xian Ling Ying San

九仙靈應散

小腦 here is borneol, the camphor-like resin; the Bogam uses the name interchangeably with 龍腦.

Composition 構成

Buja Fu Zi
附子 부자 · Prepared Aconite

8 g
Chief 君

2 don, blast-fried · toxic
Sasangja She Chuang Zi
蛇床子 사상자 · Cnidium Fruit

8 g
Chief 君

2 don
Jasohwa Zi Shao Hua
紫梢花 자소화 · Freshwater Sponge

8 g
Deputy 臣

2 don
Jeonghyang Ding Xiang
丁香 정향 · Clove

8 g
Deputy 臣

2 don
Wonji Yuan Zhi
遠志 원지 · Polygala

8 g
Assistant 佐

2 don
Seokchangpo Shi Chang Pu
石菖蒲 석창포 · Acorus

8 g
Assistant 佐

2 don
Ojeokgol Hai Piao Xiao
烏賊骨 오적골 · Cuttlefish Bone

8 g
Assistant 佐

海螵蛸, 2 don
Mokbyeolja Mu Bie Zi
木鼈子 목별자 · Momordica Seed (toxic)

8 g
Assistant 佐

2 don · toxic
Yongnoe Long Nao
龍腦 용뇌 · Borneol

6 g
Envoy 使

小腦, 1 don 5 pun

Total 70 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 a man with damp genitals and yang wilting
unable to rise at every occasion

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Damp genitals with impotence
Cold damp lodged in the genitals

Biomedical correlates

Erectile dysfunction with scrotal moisture

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治男子陰濕陽痿, 每逢不擧. 附子(炮)ㆍ蛇床子ㆍ紫梢花ㆍ遠志ㆍ石菖蒲ㆍ海螵蛸ㆍ丁香ㆍ木鱉子各二錢, 小腦一錢半. 右爲末, 每五錢, 水三椀, 煎至一椀半, 溫洗濕處幷陰囊, 日二次. 留水再溫洗, 多洗尤好. 《回春》

Translation

Treats a man with damp genitals and yang wilting, unable to rise at every occasion. Aconite accessory root (blast-fried), cnidium seed, purple-tip flower, polygala, acorus, cuttlebone, clove and momordica seed 2 don each; borneol 1 don 5 pun. Powder them; take 5 don at a time, boil in three bowls of water down to one and a half, and wash the damp place and the scrotum warm with it twice a day. Keep the water and warm it for a second wash — the more washes the better. — Manbyeong Hoechun 回春 (Donguibogam · Jeoneum)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The only external treatment for impotence in the chapter — a wash, not a draught, and read as wet cold sitting on the genitals rather than a vacuity within. Aconite and clove to warm the surface, cuttlebone to dry it, borneol to carry the rest through the skin. The Hoechun's instruction to keep the water and wash again says plainly how it was used at home. **Contains aconite accessory root and momordica seed, both toxic, and absorption through broken skin is real. This must not be prepared.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.