Boost the Root and Enrich the Kidney Pill

Ikbon-jasin-hwan

한글 익본자신환 · Pinyin Yi Ben Zi Shen Wan

益本滋腎丸

Composition 構成

Hwangbaek Huang Bai
黃柏 황백 · Phellodendron

10 g
Chief 君

equal part
Jimo Zhi Mu
知母 지모 · Anemarrhena

10 g
Chief 君

equal part

Total 20 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 a screen and membrane breeding on the black of the eye
or yin vacuity with the pupil dilated

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Yin vacuity fire with a screen
Dilated pupil from yin vacuity

Biomedical correlates

Corneal opacity with yin deficiency signs
Mydriasis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治黑睛生瞖膜, 或陰虛睛散大. 黃栢ㆍ知母幷酒洗炒各等分. 右爲末, 滴水和丸梧子大, 空心鹽湯下五七十丸. 《東垣》

Translation

Treats a screen and membrane breeding on the black of the eye, or yin vacuity with the pupil dilated. Phellodendron and anemarrhena, both wine-washed and stir-fried, in equal parts. Powder them, bind with dripped water into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds, and take fifty to seventy on an empty stomach with salt decoction. — Dongwon 東垣 (Donguibogam · An)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Two medicinals and water for a binder — the smallest formula in the chapter. Phellodendron and anemarrhena are Dongwon's pair for a fire that rises because the yin cannot hold it down, and here they are given alone, which is how he used them when the fire was the whole problem. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.