Formulas · Regulate Qi 理氣 · Dansim (丹心)

Two Fragrances Pill

Ihyang-hwan

한글 이향환  ·  Pinyin Er Xiang Wan

二香丸

Composition 構成

Total 620 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Fox mounting alternating with an abdominal lump

Biomedical correlates

  • Reducible inguinal hernia

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治狐疝上下出入作痛, 或疝痛作則腹內塊痛止, 疝痛止則腹內塊痛復作. 木香ㆍ香附子 各三兩, 山査肉 二兩, 三稜ㆍ蓬朮(幷醋煮)ㆍ神麴ㆍ薑黃ㆍ南星 各一兩, 黃連(與吳茱萸同炒)ㆍ蘿葍子ㆍ桃仁ㆍ梔子仁ㆍ橘核(炒) 各五錢. 右爲末, 薑汁浸蒸餠和丸梧子大, 白湯下五七十丸. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats fox mounting that goes up and down and makes pain, or where when the mounting pain breaks out the lump in the belly stops hurting, and when the mounting pain stops the lump hurts again. Costus and cyperus 3 nyang each; hawthorn flesh 2 nyang; sparganium and zedoary (both vinegar-boiled), medicated leaven, turmeric and arisaema 1 nyang each; coptis (fried with evodia), radish seed, peach kernel, gardenia kernel and tangerine seed (stir-fried) 5 don each. Powder them, bind with steamed bread soaked in ginger juice into pills the size of a firmiana seed, and take fifty to seventy with plain hot water. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Jeoneum)

Clinical commentary 臨床

上下出入 — going up and down, in and out. 狐疝 is named for the fox, which the tradition said came out by night and went to earth by day: a swelling that appears on standing and goes back on lying down. That is a reducible inguinal hernia, and the description is exact. **Contains arisaema, which is toxic.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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