Formulas · Invigorate Blood 活血祛瘀 · Seojuk (瑞竹)
Nourishing Luxuriance Powder
Jayeong-san
한글 자영산 · Pinyin Zi Rong San
滋榮散
Composition 構成
- Saenggang生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger37.5 g
Chief 君 baked dry and powdered; fresh slices also used as the applicator - Insam人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng37.5 g
Deputy 臣
Total 75 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
- Grows the hair
- Quickens Blood at the hair root
- Applied by rubbing into bald patches
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Hair loss with bare patches
- Failure of hair to regrow
Biomedical correlates
- Alopecia areata
- Patchy hair loss
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
長毛髮, 髮落最宜. 生薑(焙乾)ㆍ人參 各一兩. 右細末, 生薑 切片蘸藥, 髮落處擦之, 日二次. 《瑞竹》
Translation
Grows the hair; most suitable where hair has fallen. Fresh ginger (baked dry) and ginseng, 1 nyang each. Powder finely, slice fresh ginger and dip the slices in the powder, and rub the places where hair has fallen, twice daily. — Seojuk 瑞竹 (Donguibogam · Mobal)
Clinical commentary 臨床
Two herbs and a method that is still in use — ginger rubbed on bald patches remains a common domestic remedy in Korea, and small trials of ginger constituents for alopecia areata have been run, with mixed results. The mechanism the classical text implies is local: warmth and pungency draw Blood to the root. Note the neat device of using a ginger slice as the applicator so the fresh juice and the dried powder are delivered together. Ginger can irritate broken or inflamed scalp; test a small area first. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.