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Rehmannia Formula for Eyes Damaged by Reading

Jihwang-won

한글 지황원 (눈) · Pinyin Di Huang Yuan

地黃元

Not the Rehmannia Formula registered as jihwang-won, which is the Essence chapter's; the two share a name only.

Composition 構成

Sukjihwang Shu Di Huang
熟地黃 숙지황 · Prepared Rehmannia

60 g
Chief 君

1 nyang 5 don
Hwangryeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

40 g
Deputy 臣

1 nyang
Gyeolmyeongja Jue Ming Zi
決明子 결명자 · Cassia Seed

40 g
Deputy 臣

1 nyang
Bangpung Fang Feng
防風 방풍 · Siler

20 g
Deputy 臣

5 don
Gamguk Ju Hua
甘菊 감국 · Chrysanthemum

20 g
Deputy 臣

5 don
Ganghwal Qiang Huo
羌活 강활 · Notopterygium

20 g
Deputy 臣

5 don
Jusa Zhu Sha
朱砂 주사 · Cinnabar (toxic)

20 g
Assistant 佐

5 don, water-levigated · toxic
Molyak Mo Yao
沒藥 몰약 · Myrrh

20 g
Assistant 佐

5 don
Yukgye Rou Gui
肉桂 육계 · Cinnamon Bark

20 g
Envoy 使

桂心

Total 260 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

Boosts the blood and settles the liver so that the eyes brighten of themselves

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Blood damaged by prolonged looking
Liver damage with wind heat arising of itself

Biomedical correlates

Asthenopia from close work
Eye strain

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

經云, 久視傷血, 血主肝, 故傷肝而目昏. 肝傷則自生風熱, 當益血鎭肝而目自明. 熟地黃一兩半, 黃連ㆍ決明子各一兩, 防風ㆍ甘菊ㆍ羌活ㆍ桂心ㆍ朱砂水飛ㆍ沒藥各五錢. 右爲末, 蜜丸梧子大, 空心熟水下五七十丸. 《得效》

Translation

The classic says: prolonged looking damages the blood, and the blood is governed by the liver, so the liver is damaged and the eyes dim. When the liver is damaged, wind heat arises of itself; one should boost the blood and settle the liver, and the eyes brighten of themselves. Prepared rehmannia 1 nyang 5 don; coptis and cassia seed 1 nyang each; saposhnikovia, chrysanthemum, notopterygium, cinnamon heart, water-levigated cinnabar and myrrh 5 don each. Powder them, make honey pills the size of parasol-tree seeds, and take fifty to seventy on an empty stomach with boiled water. — Seui Deukhyobang 得效 (Donguibogam · An)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The argument in the citation is the chapter's account of eye strain and it holds up: prolonged close looking consumes the blood, the liver is what stores it, and the dimming follows. The formula fills the blood and settles the liver; the cinnabar is why it cannot be made as written, and leaving it out costs the formula nothing. **Contains cinnabar, a mercury sulphide. Prepare without it.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.