Formulas · Regulate Qi 理氣 · Uihak Gangmok (醫學綱目)

Boiled Cyperus Pill

Jaboo-hwan

한글 자부환  ·  Pinyin Zhu Fu Wan

煮附丸

Composition 構成

Total 640 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Menses irregular with griping pain around the navel and abdomen
  • a withered yellow complexion
  • reduced appetite
  • or flooding and spotting with vaginal discharge

Biomedical correlates

  • Dysmenorrhoea with irregular cycles
  • Menorrhagia with anaemia

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治經候不調, 臍腹㽲痛, 面色萎黃, 飮食減少, 或崩漏帶下. 香附子, 擦去毛, 好醋煮半日, 焙爲末, 醋糊和丸梧子大, 米飮下五七十丸. 《綱目》 一名香附丸, 又名醋附丸. 治婢妾氣鬱, 經多不調.

Translation

Treats menses out of order with griping pain around the navel and abdomen, a withered yellow complexion, reduced appetite, or flooding and spotting with vaginal discharge. Cyperus, the hairs rubbed off, boiled half a day in good vinegar, dry-roasted and powdered; make pills with vinegar paste the size of a firmiana seed and take fifty to seventy down with rice broth. It is also called Hyangbu-hwan, and also Chobu-hwan. It treats qi depression in maidservants and concubines, with menses excessive and out of order. — Uihak Gangmok 綱目 (Donguibogam · Po)

Clinical commentary 臨床

One medicinal, boiled half a day in vinegar. Cyperus is the chapter's chief qi-mover for the menses, and vinegar directs it to the liver and blood — the whole preparation exists to turn a qi medicinal toward the blood. 治婢妾氣鬱 — treating qi depression in maidservants and concubines — names a social position rather than a constitution, and the Bogam records it without comment. What it identifies is depression in someone with no means of acting on their circumstances, which is a real clinical category however it is labelled. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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