Formulas · Tonify Yang 補陽 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Cut Off the Red Pill

Jeonhong-won

한글 전홍원 · Pinyin Jian Hong Yuan

剪紅元

Composition 構成

Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

40 g
Chief 君

wine-steeped
Nokyong Lu Rong
鹿茸 녹용 · Deer Velvet Antler

20 g
Chief 君

the hair removed, vinegar-boiled, 5 don
Cheukbaekyeop Ce Bai Ye
側柏葉 측백엽 · Arborvitae Leaf

20 g
Deputy 臣

stir-fried (炒), 5 don
Buja Fu Zi
附子 부자 · Prepared Aconite

20 g
Deputy 臣

blast-fried (炮), 5 don · toxic
Sokdan Xu Duan
續斷 속단 · Dipsacus

20 g
Deputy 臣

wine-steeped, 5 don
Hwanggi Huang Qi
黃芪 황기 · Astragalus

20 g
Deputy 臣

honey-fried (蜜炒), 5 don
Agyo E Jiao
阿膠 아교 · Donkey-hide Gelatin

20 g
Deputy 臣

阿膠珠, 5 don
Baekban Bai Fan
白礬 백반 · Alum

20 g
Assistant 佐

calcined (枯), 5 don
Cho Cu
醋 초 · Vinegar

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Envoy 使

vinegar paste for binding; rice water as draught

Total 180 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 intestinal wind and visceral toxin with bleeding long unstopped
the face sallow and the body wasting day by day

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Chronic bleeding with vacuity

Biomedical correlates

Chronic rectal bleeding with anaemia

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治腸風臟毒下血久不止, 面色萎黃, 日漸羸瘦. 當歸(酒浸) 一兩, 側栢葉(炒)ㆍ鹿茸(去毛醋煮)ㆍ附子(炮)ㆍ續斷(酒浸)ㆍ黃芪(蜜炒)ㆍ阿膠珠ㆍ白礬(枯) 各五錢. 右爲末, 醋糊和丸梧子大, 空心米飮下七八十丸. 《入門》

Translation

Treats intestinal wind and visceral toxin with bleeding long unstopped, the face sallow and the body wasting day by day. Angelica (wine-steeped) 1 nyang; arborvitae leaf (stir-fried), deer antler velvet (the hair removed and vinegar-boiled), aconite (blast-fried), dipsacus (wine-steeped), astragalus (honey-fried), ass-hide glue pearls and alum (calcined) 5 don each. Powder them, bind with vinegar paste into pills the size of a firmiana seed, and take seventy or eighty with rice water on an empty stomach. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Hueum)

Clinical commentary 臨床

面色萎黃, 日漸羸瘦 — the face sallow and the body wasting day by day. Iron-deficiency anaemia from slow chronic bleeding, described exactly, and the formula turns from cooling the blood to supplementing what the bleeding has cost. **Contains aconite, which is toxic.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.