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Nine Pains Pill

Gutong-won

한글 구통원  ·  Pinyin Jiu Tong Yuan

九痛元

Composition 構成

Total 300 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

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Accumulated cold — heart pain

Biomedical correlates

  • Epigastric pain from cold

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治九種心痛及積冷心胸痛. 附子(炮) 三兩, 吳茱萸ㆍ人參ㆍ乾薑(炮)ㆍ巴豆(去皮油) 各一兩, 狼毒 五錢. 右爲末, 蜜丸梧子大, 溫酒下三五丸. 《局方》

Translation

Treats the nine kinds of heart pain and pain of the heart and chest from accumulated cold. Aconite (blast-fried) 3 nyang; evodia, ginseng, dried ginger (blast-fried) and croton (skinned and pressed of its oil) 1 nyang each; Fischer euphorbia root 5 don. Powder them, make honey pills the size of a firmiana seed, and take three to five with warm wine. — Hwaje Gukbang 局方 (Donguibogam · Hyung)

Clinical commentary 臨床

**Contains aconite, croton and Fischer euphorbia root, all severely toxic. This must not be prepared.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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