Formulas · Tonify Yin 補陰 · Gogeum Uigam (古今醫鑑)

Enrich the Yin Utmost Treasure Decoction

Jaeumjibo-tang

한글 자음지보탕 · Pinyin Zi Yin Zhi Bao Tang

滋陰至寶湯

The transcription prints 滋隂, 寒𤍠 and 醫鍳, given here as 滋陰, 寒熱 and 醫鑑. 經脉 is kept as printed. 便香附 is the short form of 便香附子, cyperus steeped in child's urine. The wine-frying attaches to the white peony alone.

Composition 構成

Danggwi Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

4 g
Chief 君
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

4 g
Chief 君
Baekbongnyeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

3.2 g
Deputy 臣
Jinpi Chen Pi
陳皮 진피 · Aged Tangerine Peel

3.2 g
Deputy 臣
Hyangbuja Xiang Fu
香附子 향부자 · Cyperus

3.2 g
Deputy 臣

soaked in child's urine
Baekjagyak Bai Shao
白芍藥 백작약 · White Peony

3.2 g
Deputy 臣

wine-fried
Jimo Zhi Mu
知母 지모 · Anemarrhena

3.2 g
Assistant 佐
Paemo Bei Mu
貝母 패모 · Fritillaria

3.2 g
Assistant 佐
Jigolpi Di Gu Pi
地骨皮 지골피 · Lycium Root Bark

3.2 g
Assistant 佐
Maengmundong Mai Men Dong
麥門冬 맥문동 · Liriope

3.2 g
Assistant 佐
Siho Chai Hu
柴胡 시호 · Bupleurum

2 g
Assistant 佐
Bakha Bo He
薄荷 박하 · Mint

2 g
Envoy 使
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

2 g
Envoy 使
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

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Envoy 使

three slices

Total 39.6 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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

Treats every vacuity and the hundred damages in a woman
Regulates a menstrual cycle that has lost its order
Settles alternating cold and heat with wasting

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Every vacuity and the hundred damages (諸虛百損)
The five taxations and the seven damages (五勞七傷)
Menstrual cycle disordered, with alternating cold and heat and a wasted body (經脉不調, 寒熱羸瘦)

Biomedical correlates

Chronic fatigue with low-grade fever
Menstrual irregularity with weight loss
Convalescence after long illness or childbirth

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治婦人諸虛百損, 五勞七傷, 經脉不調, 寒熱羸瘦. 當歸ㆍ白朮各一錢, 白茯苓ㆍ陳皮ㆍ知母ㆍ貝母ㆍ便香附ㆍ地骨皮ㆍ麥門冬ㆍ白芍藥(酒炒) 各八分, 柴胡ㆍ薄荷ㆍ甘草各五分. 右剉作一貼, 薑三, 水煎服. 《醫鑑》

Translation

Treats every vacuity and the hundred damages in a woman, the five taxations and the seven damages, a menstrual cycle that has lost its order, and alternating cold and heat with a wasted body. Angelica and atractylodes, 1 don each; white poria, tangerine peel, anemarrhena, fritillary, cyperus prepared in child's urine, lycium bark, ophiopogon and wine-fried white peony, 8 fun each; bupleurum, mint and liquorice, 5 fun each. Cut the above to make one packet, add three slices of ginger, and decoct in water. — Uigam 醫鑑 (Donguibogam · Buin)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Thirteen herbs and a slice of ginger, built for the woman the chapter calls hollowed out — long tired, thin, her cycle unreliable, hot in the afternoon and cold at night. The architecture is plain once the pieces are sorted: angelica and peony for the blood, atractylodes and poria for the centre, ophiopogon and anemarrhena and lycium bark for the dry heat that rises in a depleted body, bupleurum and mint to let it out at the surface, cyperus and tangerine peel so that none of it sits heavy. Fritillary is the odd one in and belongs to the dry cough such patients keep. Nothing here is strong. Its interest is the pattern it was written for, which is recognisable in a modern clinic: the alternating cold and heat with weight loss and a stalled cycle that turns out to be thyroid disease, anaemia, tuberculosis or an eating disorder as often as it turns out to be exhaustion. The formula is a reasonable support and a poor substitute for finding out which. **The cyperus is prepared in child's urine, a human-derived material that is not used in contemporary practice; it is recorded here as text.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.