Formulas · Warm the Interior 溫裏 · Jikji (直指)

Fenugreek Formula

Horopa-won

한글 호로파원 · Pinyin Hu Lu Ba Yuan

胡蘆巴元

Composition 構成

Horopa Hu Lu Ba
胡蘆巴 호로파 · Fenugreek Seed

40 g
Chief 君

1 nyang
Hoehyang Hui Xiang
茴香 회향 · Fennel Fruit

120 g
Deputy 臣

3 nyang
Baekchuk Bai Chou
白丑 백축 · White Morning Glory Seed

80 g
Deputy 臣

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

40 g
Deputy 臣

1 nyang
Cheono Chuan Wu
川烏 천오 · Aconite Main Root

60 g
Assistant 佐

1 nyang 5 don, blast-fried · toxic
Pageuk Ba Ji Tian
巴戟 파극 · Morinda Root

60 g
Assistant 佐

1 nyang 5 don
Osuyu Wu Zhu Yu
吳茱萸 오수유 · Evodia

60 g
Assistant 佐

1 nyang 5 don

Total 460 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 running-piglet mounting qi surging upward with pain that cannot be borne

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Running-piglet mounting qi with unbearable pain
Cold accumulation in the lower burner

Biomedical correlates

Severe inguinal hernia pain

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治奔豚疝氣上衝, 痛不可忍. 茴香(炒) 三兩, 白丑頭末二兩, 川烏(炮)ㆍ巴戟ㆍ吳茱萸各一兩半, 川楝子ㆍ胡蘆巴各一兩. 右爲末, 酒糊和丸梧子大, 空心酒下二三十丸. 《直指》

Translation

Treats running-piglet mounting qi surging upward with pain that cannot be borne. Fennel stir-fried 3 nyang; the first powder of white morning-glory seed 2 nyang; aconite main root (blast-fried), morinda and evodia 1 nyang 5 don each; toosendan fruit and fenugreek 1 nyang each. Powder them, bind with a wine-and-flour paste into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds, and take twenty to thirty on an empty stomach with wine. — Jikji 直指 (Donguibogam · Jeoneum)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The chapter's strongest warming formula for mounting qi, and the one it later names again as a general treatment for the whole group. Fenugreek gives it its name and the lower burner its heat; the morning-glory seed is the one downward-draining drug among warm ones, so that what is driven upward has somewhere to go. **Contains aconite main root, which is toxic. This must not be prepared.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.