Formulas · Tonify Yang 補陽 · Gwangsa (廣嗣)

Five Seeds Continue the Lineage Pill

Ojayeonjong-hwan

한글 오자연종환 · Pinyin Wu Zi Yan Zong Wan

五子衍宗丸

Pill formula, bulk amounts: pounded to a powder and bound with honey into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; 90 pills swallowed with warm wine on an empty stomach, and 50 with salted water at bedtime. In the habitual loser of essence, remove the plantago seed and substitute lotus seed (Immun 入門). The source appends a calendar of auspicious days for compounding, and a list of persons and things to be kept from the preparation — recorded here as text, belonging to the ritual world of its formulary.

Composition 構成

Gugija Gou Qi Zi
枸杞子 구기자 · Goji Berry

360 g
Chief 君
Tosaja Tu Si Zi
菟絲子 토사자 · Cuscuta

280 g
Chief 君 wine-soaked and prepared
Bokbunja Fu Pen Zi
覆盆子 복분자 · Korean Raspberry

200 g
Deputy 臣
Chajeonja Che Qian Zi
車前子 차전자 · Plantago Seed

120 g
Assistant 佐
Omija Wu Wei Zi
五味子 오미자 · Schisandra

40 g
Envoy 使

Total 1000 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

Treats male childlessness with five seeds and nothing else
Fills the essence while keeping the water gate in order

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Male childlessness (治男子無嗣)
Essence insufficiency of the ordinary kind
The classic seed formula for male fertility

Biomedical correlates

Male infertility support
Low semen parameters
Long-course male reproductive tonification

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治男子無嗣. 枸杞子九兩, 兎絲子(酒浸製) 七兩, 覆盆子五兩, 車前子三兩, 五味子一兩. 右搗爲末, 蜜丸梧子大, 空心, 溫酒呑下九十丸, 臨臥, 鹽湯呑下五十丸. ○慣遺精者, 去車前子, 代蓮子. 《廣嗣》《入門》

Translation

Treats male childlessness. Lycium fruit 9 nyang; cuscuta (wine-soaked and prepared) 7 nyang; rubus 5 nyang; plantago seed 3 nyang; schisandra 1 nyang. Pound the above to a powder and bind with honey into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; swallow 90 pills with warm wine on an empty stomach, and 50 with salted water at bedtime. — In one habitually losing essence, remove the plantago seed and substitute lotus seed. — Gwangsa 廣嗣 · Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Buin)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The tradition's most enduring male fertility formula, still in daily use — five seeds, and the logic of seeds is the whole argument: what carries a plant's power to reproduce is asked to do the same in a person. Lycium and cuscuta fill, raspberry and schisandra hold, and plantago keeps the waterway clear so the filling does not stagnate. The substitution clause is pure clinical observation: for the man who cannot hold his essence, swap the drainer for a binder. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.