One Drunkenness Never Age Elixir

Pattern-based

• Greying from Blood insufficiency
• Whitening of beard and hair

Biomedical correlates

• Age-related greying

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

專養血, 烏鬚, 黑髮. 蓮花蕋ㆍ生地黃ㆍ槐角子ㆍ五加皮 各二兩, 沒石子 六箇. 右以木石臼擣碎, 以生絹袋盛藥, 同好淸酒十斤入淨罈內, 春冬浸一月, 秋二十日, 夏十日, 緊封罈口, 浸滿日數, 任意飮之, 以醉爲度. 須連日服令盡, 酒盡而鬚髮白者, 自黑矣. 若不黑, 再製服之, 神效. 《醫鑑》

Translation

Nourishes the Blood specifically, blackening beard and hair. Lotus stamen, raw rehmannia, pagoda tree fruit, and acanthopanax bark 2 nyang each; Aleppo gall 6 pieces. Pound in a wooden or stone mortar, put the medicine in a raw silk bag, and place it with 10 geun of good clear wine in a clean jar — steeping one month in spring and winter, twenty days in autumn, ten days in summer — sealing the mouth tightly. When the full number of days has passed, drink as much as you please, taking drunkenness as the measure. It should be taken on consecutive days until finished; when the wine is gone, white beard and hair blacken of themselves. If they do not, make it again and take it — divine effect. — Uigam 醫鑑 (Donguibogam · Mobal)