Formulas · Regulate Qi 理氣 · Seui Deukhyobang (世醫得效方)

Peony Powder for Flank Pain

Jakyak-san

한글 작약산 (협통) · Pinyin Shao Yao San

芍藥散

The Women chapter carries other formulas of this name; this one is suffixed -hyeop.

Composition 構成

Hyangbuja Xiang Fu
香附子 향부자 · Cyperus

160 g
Chief 君

4 nyang, boiled dry in vinegar with salt
Baekjakyak Bai Shao
白芍藥 백작약 · White Peony

40 g
Chief 君

wine-fried (酒炒)
Yukgye Rou Gui
肉桂 육계 · Cinnamon Bark

40 g
Deputy 臣
Hyeonhosaek Yan Hu Suo
玄胡索 현호색 · Corydalis

40 g
Deputy 臣

stir-fried (炒)

Total 280 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

Treats a woman's cold pattern flank pain where no other medicine has answered

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

A woman's cold flank pain
unresponsive to other treatment

Biomedical correlates

Chronic flank pain in women

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治婦人冷證脇痛, 諸藥不效. 香附子四兩, 以醋二升ㆍ鹽一兩同煮乾爲度. 肉桂ㆍ玄胡索(炒)ㆍ白芍藥(酒炒) 各一兩. 右爲末, 每二錢, 沸湯調下. 《得效》

Translation

Treats a woman's cold pattern flank pain where no other medicine has answered. Cyperus 4 nyang, boiled with two seung of vinegar and a nyang of salt until dry; cinnamon, corydalis (stir-fried) and white peony (wine-fried) 1 nyang each. Powder them and take 2 don at a time stirred into freshly boiled water. — Seui Deukhyobang 得效 (Donguibogam · Hyeop)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Cyperus at four nyang, boiled in vinegar and salt until dry — the vinegar takes it into the liver and the salt into the kidney, and the processing is a third of the formula's work. Corydalis and peony for the pain, cinnamon for the cold. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.