Formulas · Invigorate Blood 活血祛瘀 · Mangye (回春)

Regulate the Cycle and Nourish the Blood Pill

Jogyeongyanghyeol-won

한글 조경양혈원  ·  Pinyin Tiao Jing Yang Xue Yuan

調經養血元

Pill formula, bulk amounts: powdered and bound with a vinegar paste into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; 100 pills on an empty stomach with plain boiled water or warm wine. **The source's own instruction: once pregnant, do not take it.**

Composition 構成

Total 1272 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

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • The menstrual vessels unregulated with no conception for a long time (經脉不調 久不受孕)
  • Cycle irregularity with cold and stasis together
  • Long-course preconception regulation

Biomedical correlates

  • Infertility with cycle irregularity
  • Long-course menstrual regulation
  • Preconception preparation

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治經脉不調, 久不受孕. 香附子 十二兩(酒ㆍ醋ㆍ鹽湯ㆍ童便, 各浸三日焙), 當歸(酒洗)ㆍ白芍藥(酒炒)ㆍ生乾地黃(酒洗)ㆍ牡丹皮(酒洗) 各二兩, 川芎ㆍ白茯苓ㆍ白芷ㆍ乾薑(炒)ㆍ肉桂ㆍ紅花ㆍ桃仁ㆍ沒藥ㆍ半夏(油炒)ㆍ阿膠珠 各一兩, 玄胡索 六錢, 蓬朮(煨醋炒)ㆍ甘草(灸) 各五錢, 茴香(炒) 二錢. 右爲末, 醋糊和丸梧子大, 空心, 白湯或溫酒下百丸. 有孕勿服. 《回春》

Translation

Treats the menstrual vessels unregulated, with no conception for a long time. Cyperus 12 nyang, steeped three days each in wine, vinegar, salt water, and child's urine, then baked; wine-washed Korean angelica, wine-fried white peony, wine-washed dried raw rehmannia, and wine-washed moutan bark, 2 nyang each; cnidium, white poria, angelica dahurica, dry-fried dried ginger, cinnamon bark, safflower, peach kernel, myrrh, oil-fried pinellia, and pearled ass-hide glue, 1 nyang each; corydalis 6 don; curcuma (ember-roasted and vinegar-fried) and roasted licorice, 5 don each; dry-fried fennel 2 don. Powder the above and bind with a vinegar paste into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; take 100 pills on an empty stomach with plain boiled water or warm wine. Once pregnant, do not take it. — Hoechun 回春 (Donguibogam · Buin)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Twelve ounces of four-processed cyperus leading eighteen other herbs — the largest of the cycle-regulating pills, and built to be taken for months. Its architecture is the chapter's whole approach at once: the Four Substances to rebuild, cinnamon and dried ginger to warm, safflower and peach kernel and myrrh to move, and glue to hold. The discontinuation instruction at the end is the same one the Women's chapter gives for its preconception formulas, and it is the responsible half of prescribing this way. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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