Relieve the Pain Formula

Gyeontong-won

한글 견통원 · Pinyin Juan Tong Yuan

蠲痛元

The Wikisource transcription writes the first graph of the name as 哸; 蠲痛元 is the Bogam's form.

Composition 構成

Hyeonhosaek Yan Hu Suo
玄胡索 현호색 · Corydalis

40 g
Chief 君

1 nyang
Cheollyeonja Chuan Lian Zi
川楝子 천련자 · Toosendan Fruit

20 g
Chief 君

川楝肉, 5 don
Hoehyang Hui Xiang
茴香 회향 · Fennel Fruit

20 g
Deputy 臣

5 don
Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

10 g
Deputy 臣

2 don 5 pun
Yangang Gao Liang Jiang
良薑 양강 · Lesser Galangal

10 g
Deputy 臣

2 don 5 pun
Mokhyang Mu Xiang
木香 목향 · Costus Root

10 g
Deputy 臣

2 don 5 pun
Oyak Wu Yao
烏藥 오약 · Lindera

10 g
Deputy 臣

2 don 5 pun
Baekchuk Bai Chou
白丑 백축 · White Morning Glory Seed

10 g
Assistant 佐

2 don 5 pun
Cheongpi Qing Pi
靑皮 청피 · Green Tangerine Peel

10 g
Assistant 佐

2 don 5 pun
Jeongal Quan Xie
全蠍 전갈 · Scorpion (toxic)

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Assistant 佐

7 scorpions

Total 140 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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 small intestine and bladder qi pain

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Small intestine qi pain
Bladder qi pain

Biomedical correlates

Inguinal hernia pain
Colicky lower abdominal pain

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治小腸ㆍ膀胱氣痛. 玄胡索一兩, 川楝肉ㆍ茴香(炒) 各五錢, 白丑頭末(炒)ㆍ當歸ㆍ良薑ㆍ靑皮ㆍ木香ㆍ烏藥各二錢半, 全蝎(焙) 七箇. 右爲末, 薑汁浸蒸餠和丸梧子大, 燒綿灰調酒送下三五十丸. 《直指》

Translation

Treats small intestine and bladder qi pain. Corydalis 1 nyang; toosendan flesh and fennel (stir-fried) 5 don each; the first powder of white morning-glory seed (stir-fried), Korean angelica, lesser galangal, green tangerine peel, saussurea and lindera 2 don 5 pun each; seven whole scorpions dried over a low fire. Powder them, bind with steamed cake soaked in ginger juice into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds, and send thirty to fifty down with wine stirred with the ash of burnt cotton wool. — Jikji 直指 (Donguibogam · Jeoneum)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Corydalis at twice the weight of anything else, which makes it a pain formula before it is a mounting formula. The draught is the oddity: wine stirred with the ash of burnt cotton, an astringent carrier the Jikji uses to hold the pills down where they are wanted rather than to add any action of its own. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.