Formulas · Tonify Yin 補陰 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Enrich the Yin and Down the Fire Pill

Jaeumganghwa-hwan

한글 자음강화환 · Pinyin Zi Yin Jiang Huo Wan

滋陰降火丸

Pill formula, bulk amounts: powdered, and rehmannia steamed in wine to a paste binds pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; 100 pills with plain boiled water. Distinct from the decoction of the same name (滋陰降火湯) recorded in the Fire chapter.

Composition 構成

Sukjihwang Shu Di Huang
熟地黃 숙지황 · Prepared Rehmannia

80 g
Chief 君
Hwangbaek Huang Bai
黃柏 황백 · Phellodendron

60 g
Deputy 臣
Jimo Zhi Mu
知母 지모 · Anemarrhena

40 g
Deputy 臣
Gugija Gou Qi Zi
枸杞子 구기자 · Goji Berry

40 g
Assistant 佐
Yeonjayuk Lian Zi
蓮子肉 연자육 · Lotus Seed

40 g
Assistant 佐
Boksin Fu Shen
茯神 복신 · Poria with hostwood

40 g
Assistant 佐
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

40 g
Assistant 佐

Total 340 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

Supplements a vacuous Yin with seven herbs and nothing more
Settles the spirit while the fire is brought down

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Yin vacuity (補陰虛)
Depletion heat with restlessness and poor sleep
Long-course maintenance of the enriched Yin

Biomedical correlates

Chronic Yin depletion with insomnia
Night heat with restlessness
Long-term maintenance therapy

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

補陰虛. 熟地黃二兩, 黃柏一兩半, 知母ㆍ枸杞子ㆍ蓮肉ㆍ茯神ㆍ人參各一兩. 右爲末, 以地黃酒蒸作膏和丸梧子大. 白湯下百丸. 《入門》

Translation

Supplements the vacuous Yin. Prepared rehmannia 2 nyang; phellodendron 1 nyang 5 don; anemarrhena, lycium fruit, lotus seed flesh, hostwood poria, and ginseng, 1 nyang each. Powder the above; steam rehmannia in wine to make a paste and bind pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; take 100 pills with plain boiled water. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Heoro)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The pill counterpart to the chapter's best-known Yin-enriching decoction, and the differences are worth noting: hostwood poria and lotus seed appear here where the decoction has neither, so this version settles the spirit as it cools. That makes it the form to reach for when the depletion heat is keeping someone awake. The binder is the chief herb itself, steamed in wine to a paste — the formula holding itself together. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.