Formulas · Invigorate Blood 活血祛瘀 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)
Amber Regulate the Cycle Pill
Hobakjogyeong-hwan
한글 호박조경환 · Pinyin Hu Po Tiao Jing Wan
Pill formula, bulk amounts: the cyperus is divided into two parcels and steeped nine days, one in child's urine and one in rice vinegar, then cooked together with the prepared mugwort; all are powdered and bound with a vinegar paste into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; 100 pills on an empty stomach with a mugwort-and-vinegar decoction.
Composition 構成
- Hyangbuja香附子 향부자 · Cyperus640 g
Chief 君 rice grade, halved and steeped nine days — one part in child's urine, one in rice vinegar - Aeyeop艾葉 애엽 · Mugwort Leaf160 g
Deputy 臣 cleaned and processed (熟艾), cooked with the cyperus - Saengjihwang生地黃 생지황 · Raw Rehmannia80 g
Deputy 臣 dried (乾) - Molyak沒藥 몰약 · Myrrh80 g
Assistant 佐 - Hobak琥珀 호박 · Amber40 g
Assistant 佐
Total 1000 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
- Warms the cold womb that bears no children
- Rights the menses so that they come as they should
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- A cold womb without children (胞冷無子)
- Cycle irregular in timing color or consistency
- The general regulating pill of the womb chapter
Biomedical correlates
- Infertility with cold-pattern presentation
- Cycle irregularity
- Long-course menstrual regulation
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治胞冷無子, 能令經正. 香附米 一斤(分作二包, 用童尿ㆍ米醋 各浸九日, 和淨熟艾四兩同煮), 乾地黃ㆍ沒藥 各二兩, 琥珀 一兩. 右爲末, 醋糊和丸梧子大, 每百丸, 空心, 艾醋湯下. 《入門》
Translation
Treats a cold womb without children, and can bring the menses right. Rice-grade cyperus 1 geun, divided into two parcels and steeped nine days — one in child's urine, one in rice vinegar — then cooked together with 4 nyang of cleaned prepared mugwort; dried rehmannia and myrrh, 2 nyang each; amber 1 nyang. Powder the above and bind with a vinegar paste into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; take 100 pills on an empty stomach with a mugwort-and-vinegar decoction. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Po)