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Cistanche and Aquilaria Pill

Jongchim-hwan

한글 종침환 · Pinyin Cong Chen Wan

蓯沉丸

The Bogam notes the alternative name 蓯蓉潤腸丸.

Composition 構成

Yukjongyong Rou Cong Rong
肉蓯蓉 육종용 · Cistanche

80 g
Chief 君
Chimhyang Chen Xiang
沈香 침향 · Agarwood

40 g
Deputy 臣
Majain Huo Ma Ren
麻子仁 마자인 · Hemp Seed

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Envoy 使

hemp-seed juice beaten into a paste to bind the pills

Total 120 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 loss of the fluids with the stool constantly bound

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Fluid depletion with constipation
Kidney vacuity constipation

Biomedical correlates

Constipation in the elderly
Constipation after dehydration

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

一名蓯蓉潤腸丸. 治亡津液, 大便常秘結. 肉蓯蓉二兩, 沉香一兩. 右爲末, 用麻仁汁打糊和丸梧子大, 每七十丸, 空心, 米飮呑下. 《入門》

Translation

Also called Jongyong-yunjang-hwan. Treats loss of the fluids with the stool constantly bound. Cistanche, 2 nyang; aquilaria, 1 nyang. Powder, beat hemp-seed juice into a paste and with it make pills the size of a paulownia seed; swallow seventy each time on an empty stomach in rice water. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Two drugs, and the choice of cistanche as chief marks this as a kidney formula rather than a bowel one: the constipation is read as the fluids gone, and the answer is a warm moistening tonic. Cistanche is still used for exactly this — constipation in the aged and the depleted — and its phenylethanoid glycosides have a documented laxative effect. Aquilaria carries it downward. The hemp-seed paste means the pill is lubricated as well as the patient. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.