Formulas · Tonify Yang 補陽 · Uibang Yuchwi (醫方類聚)
Aconite and Atractylodes Pill
Ochul-hwan
한글 오출환 · Pinyin Wu Zhu Wan
Pill formula, bulk amounts: powdered and bound with honey into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; 30–50 pills with salted water or warm wine on an empty stomach. The preparations are the formula's signature — atractylodes steeped ten days in east-flowing water, aconite main tuber soaked five days in daily-changed rice water then blast-fried, and Sichuan pepper sweated open on a vinegar-doused red-hot brick. Note on modern practice: cheono (川烏, aconite main tuber) is a regulated toxic medicinal; it is used only processed and prescribed with caution today.
Composition 構成
- Changchul蒼朮 창출 · Black Atractylodes320 g
Chief 君 east-water-soaked 10 days - Cheono川烏 천오 · Aconite Main Root120 g
Deputy 臣 rice-water-soaked, 炮 - Cheoncho川椒 천초 · Sichuan Pepper120 g
Assistant 佐 brick-roasted (醋潑塼) - Cheongpi靑皮 청피 · Green Tangerine Peel120 g
Assistant 佐 white removed - Cheongyeom靑鹽 청염 · Blue Rock Salt40 g
Envoy 使 ground separately
Total 720 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
- Supplements Spleen and Kidney and strengthens sinew and bone
- Warms the lower origin with fire-forged preparation
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Vacuity taxation with a cold lower origin (煖下元)
- Spleen-Kidney weakness with damp and sinew-bone debility
- Cold-predominant depletion in hardy constitutions
Biomedical correlates
- Chronic low-back and lower-limb weakness with cold
- Deconditioning with cold intolerance
- Damp-cold musculoskeletal debility
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治虛勞, 補脾腎, 壯筋骨, 煖下元. 蒼朮(東流水浸十日, 去皮切焙) 半斤, 川烏(米泔浸五日, 逐日換泔, 炮去皮臍)ㆍ川椒(取開口者, 燒塼令紅, 以醋潑塼安椒, 盖出汗取紅)ㆍ靑皮(去白) 各三兩, 靑鹽 一兩(另硏). 右爲末, 蜜丸梧子大. 空心, 鹽湯, 或溫酒下三五十丸. 《類聚》
Translation
Treats vacuity taxation; supplements Spleen and Kidney, strengthens sinew and bone, and warms the lower origin. Atractylodes (steeped ten days in east-flowing water, peeled, sliced, and stone-baked) half a geun; aconite main tuber (steeped five days in rice water changed daily, blast-fried, peel and navel removed), Sichuan pepper (open-mouthed ones, sweated on a red-hot brick doused with vinegar, the reddened ones taken), and green tangerine peel (white removed), 3 nyang each; blue rock salt 1 nyang, ground separately. Powder the above and bind with honey into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; take 30–50 pills with salted water or warm wine on an empty stomach. — Yuchwi 類聚 (Donguibogam · Heoro)