Zhongshan Return to Childhood Wine

Jungsanhwandong-ju

한글 중산환동주 · Pinyin Zhong Shan Huan Tong Jiu

中山還童酒

Composition 構成

Marinja Ma Lin Zi
馬藺子 마린자 · Iris Seed

700 g
Chief 君 1 seung buried in earth 3 days; a further 1 seung with root boiled and added later
Hwangmi Huang Mi
黃米 황미 · Yellow Millet

12000 g
Deputy 臣 2 mal, boiled to a mash as the fermentation base
Juhyoja Jiu Jiao Zi
酒酵子 주효자 · Wine Leaven

400 g
Assistant 佐 2 bowls
Singok Shen Qu
神麴 신곡 · Medicated Leaven

100 g
Assistant 佐陳麴, 2 cakes, powdered

Total 13200 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

Blackens beard and hair entirely
Taken as a fermented medicated wine

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Whitening of beard and hair

Biomedical correlates

Age-related greying

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

歌曰, 中山還童酒, 人間處處有, 善緣得遇者, 便是蓬萊叟. ○馬藺子一升埋土三日取出, 馬藺根洗切片一升, 用黃米二斗, 水煮成煤. 陳麴二塊爲末, 酒酵子二椀, 幷前馬藺子共和一處做酒, 待熟, 另用馬藺子幷根一升, 用水煮十沸, 入酒內三日. 每日, 攪勻去渣. 隨量飮醉, 其酒飮盡, 鬚髮盡黑. 其酒之色如漆之黑. 《回春》

Translation

A song runs: Zhongshan Return to Childhood Wine — it is found in every place among men; whoever has the good fortune to meet with it is straightway an elder of Penglai. — Iris seed 1 seung buried in earth three days and taken out; iris root washed and sliced, 1 seung; yellow millet 2 mal boiled in water to a mash. Aged leaven 2 cakes powdered, and wine leaven 2 bowls, mixed together in one place with the iris seed above and made into wine. When it has matured, take a further 1 seung of iris seed and root, boil in water to ten bubblings, and add to the wine for three days. Each day stir it evenly and remove the dregs. Drink to drunkenness according to capacity; when the wine is finished, the beard and hair are wholly black. The colour of the wine is black as lacquer. — Hoechun 回春 (Donguibogam · Mobal)

Clinical commentary 臨床

This is a home brewing recipe rather than a dispensary formula — millet mash, leaven, yeast, and a medicinal added twice, once into the ferment and once after. The wine is described as black as lacquer, which iris seed and root would plausibly produce, and it is worth asking whether the reported effect owes anything to the drink staining what it touches. The opening song is preserved because the Donguibogam preserves such things; Penglai is the isle of the immortals. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.