Fortify the Root Elixir

Jangbon-dan

한글 장본단 · Pinyin Zhuang Ben Dan

壯本丹

Powdered; a pig's kidney is split open, the powder packed inside and sewn shut, wrapped in paper and roasted through in embers. One kidney is one dose, sent down with yellow wine.

Composition 構成

Duchung Du Zhong
杜仲 두충 · Eucommia Bark

40 g
Chief 君 wine-fried
Bogolji Bu Gu Zhi
補骨脂 보골지 · Psoralea

40 g
Chief 君 salt-water-fried
Hoehyang Hui Xiang
茴香 회향 · Fennel Fruit

40 g
Deputy 臣 dry-fried
Yukjongyong Rou Cong Rong
肉蓯蓉 육종용 · Cistanche

20 g
Deputy 臣 wine-washed
Pageuk Ba Ji Tian
巴戟 파극 · Morinda Root

20 g
Assistant 佐 wine-steeped
Cheongyeom Qing Yan
靑鹽 청염 · Blue Rock Salt

20 g
Envoy 使

Total 180 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

Fortifies the root where Kidney vacuity has taken the low back
Carries the medicine into the kidney by way of a pig's kidney

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Kidney vacuity lumbar pain
wonderfully effective (治腎虛腰痛甚妙)
Cold depletion of the lower back
Single-dose preparation

Biomedical correlates

Chronic low back pain with cold and weakness
Kidney-yang depletion
Food-medicine therapy

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治腎虛腰痛甚妙. 杜沖(酒炒)ㆍ破故紙(鹽水炒)ㆍ茴香(炒) 各一兩, 肉蓯蓉(酒洗)ㆍ巴戟(酒浸)ㆍ靑鹽各五錢. 右爲末, 將猪腰子分開, 入藥在內縫住, 紙包煨熟, 每一箇作一服, 以黃酒送下. 《醫鑑》

Translation

Treats Kidney vacuity lumbar pain — wonderfully effective. Wine-fried eucommia, salt-water-fried psoralea, and dry-fried fennel, 1 nyang each; wine-washed cistanche, wine-steeped morinda, and blue salt, 5 don each. Powder the above; split open a pig's kidney, put the medicine inside and sew it shut, wrap in paper and roast through in embers. Each kidney makes one dose, sent down with yellow wine. — Uigam 醫鑑 (Donguibogam · Yo)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The chapter's favorite delivery method, stated plainly: the medicine goes into a pig's kidney and the kidney goes into the patient. Like reaching like — the same reasoning that puts pig's kidney in the simples list and in Oesin-san. Beneath the theater, the powder itself is a well-built warming formula, and the salt used to process the psoralea has its own job, since salt is what sends a medicine to the Kidney. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.