Formulas · Tonify Blood 補血 · Gogeum Uigam (古今醫鑑)

Two Immortals Pill

Iseon-hwan

한글 이선환 · Pinyin Er Xian Wan

二仙丸

Composition 構成

Cheukbaegyeop Ce Bai Ye
側柏葉 측백엽 · Arborvitae Leaf

300 g
Chief 君

baked dry
Danggwi Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

150 g
Deputy 臣

whole root

Total 450 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

Nourishes Blood and stops hair fall
Cools Blood at the hair root

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Hair falling out
Blood vacuity with heat at the root of the hair

Biomedical correlates

Telogen effluvium
Diffuse hair loss

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治髮脫落, 神效. 側柏葉(焙乾) 八兩, 當歸(全身) 四兩. 右不犯鐵爲末, 水糊和丸梧子大, 酒或鹽湯下五七十丸, 日再. 《醫鑑》

Translation

Treats falling hair, with divine effect. Arborvitae leaf (baked dry) 8 nyang, Korean angelica (whole root) 4 nyang. Powder the above without letting iron touch them, form into water-paste pills the size of firmiana seeds, and take 50 to 70 with wine or salt decoction, twice daily. — Uigam 醫鑑 (Donguibogam · Mobal)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Two herbs, taken internally, and the most practical hair-loss formula in the chapter — arborvitae leaf cools Blood and is the classical hair medicinal, Korean angelica supplies the Blood it cools. The 2:1 ratio puts the emphasis on cooling, which suits the picture the chapter describes at 鬚髮黃落: fire flaring and Blood drying in a young person losing hair. The prohibition on iron appears here as it does with Jangcheonsachohwan-dan, and for the same reason — iron reacts with the tannins in arborvitae leaf. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.