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Enrich Yin Great Supplement Pill

Jaeumdaebo-hwan

한글 자음대보환  ·  Pinyin Zi Yin Da Bu Wan

滋陰大補丸

Pill formula, bulk amounts: powdered and bound with steamed jujube flesh and honey into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; 70–90 pills with salted water or warm wine. The source directs it be taken in alternation with Gamihojam-hwan — supplementing Yin and harmonizing Yang, engendering Blood and boosting essence, moistening skin and strengthening sinew and bone. 'Cool without being cold, warm without being hot: none who has not penetrated the fine subtlety of nature's workings is fit to discuss this.'

Composition 構成

Total 560 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

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Vacuity taxation needing Heart-Kidney supplementation (補心腎)
  • Depletion of essence and Blood with dry skin and weak frame
  • The Yin half of an alternating regimen with Gamihojam-hwan

Biomedical correlates

  • Chronic fatigue with musculoskeletal weakness
  • Age-related decline in vitality and tissue quality
  • Long-course maintenance in mixed constitutions

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治虛勞, 補心腎. 熟地黃 二兩, 牛膝ㆍ山藥 各一兩半, 杜沖ㆍ巴戟ㆍ山茱萸ㆍ肉蓯蓉ㆍ五味子ㆍ白茯苓ㆍ茴香ㆍ遠志 各一兩, 石菖蒲ㆍ枸杞子 各五錢. 右爲末, 蒸棗肉和蜜爲丸梧子大. 鹽湯, 或溫酒下七九十丸. ○此藥, 與加味虎潛丸相間服之, 所謂補陰和陽, 生血益精, 潤肌膚, 强筋骨. 性味淸而不寒, 溫而不熱, 非達造化之精微者, 足與議於此也. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats vacuity taxation; supplements the Heart and Kidney. Prepared rehmannia 2 nyang; achyranthes and dioscorea, 1.5 nyang each; eucommia, morinda, cornus, cistanche, schisandra, white poria, fennel, and polygala, 1 nyang each; acorus and lycium fruit, 5 don each. Powder the above and bind with steamed jujube flesh and honey into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; take 70–90 pills with salted water or warm wine. — This medicine is taken in alternation with Gamihojam-hwan: this is what is meant by supplementing Yin and harmonizing Yang, engendering Blood and boosting essence, moistening the skin and strengthening sinew and bone. Its nature and flavor are cool without being cold and warm without being hot — none who has not penetrated the fine subtlety of nature's workings is fit to join in discussing it. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Heoro)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Danxi's temperature masterpiece and half of a two-pill regimen — this jar leans warm-moist while its partner Gamihojam-hwan leans cool-hard, and the patient swings between them like breath. The source's closing boast about 'the fine subtlety of nature's workings' is earned: the art here is entirely in the equilibrium. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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