Formulas · Dispel Wind-Damp 祛風濕 · Bonsabang (本事方)

Black Dragon Pill

Oryong-hwan

한글 오룡환 · Pinyin Wu Long Wan

烏龍丸

The chapter's list of treatments for scrotal damp itch names this formula 烏頭丸; the formula heading reads 烏龍丸, which is the name used here.

Composition 構成

Cheono Chuan Wu
川烏 천오 · Aconite Main Root

40 g
Chief 君

1 nyang, boiled with black soybean until soft through, peeled and the navel removed, sliced and dried over a low fire · toxic
Choo Cao Wu
草烏 초오 · Wild Aconite

40 g
Chief 君

1 nyang, prepared the same way · toxic
Baekbuja Bai Fu Zi
白附子 백부자 · Typhonium Rhizome

20 g
Deputy 臣

5 don
Cheonma Tian Ma
天麻 천마 · Gastrodia

20 g
Deputy 臣

5 don
Jiryong Di Long
地龍 지룡 · Earthworm

20 g
Assistant 佐

5 don
Heukdu Hei Dou
黑豆 흑두 · Black Soybean

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Envoy 使

half a seung

Total 140 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 kidney-visceral wind pouring downward with sores and lichen breaking out

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Kidney-visceral wind with chronic sores and lichen

Biomedical correlates

Chronic eczema and tinea of the legs and groin

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治腎藏風下注, 生瘡癬. 川烏ㆍ草烏各一兩, 以黑豆半升煮透軟, 去皮臍, 切焙乾; 入白附子ㆍ天麻ㆍ地龍各五錢. 右爲末, 酒糊和丸梧子大, 空心鹽湯呑下三五十丸. 《本事》

Translation

Treats kidney-visceral wind pouring downward with sores and lichen breaking out. Aconite main root and wild aconite 1 nyang each, boiled with half a seung of black soybean until soft through, then peeled, the navel removed, sliced and dried over a low fire; add typhonium, gastrodia and earthworm 5 don each. Powder them, bind with a wine-and-flour paste into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds, and take thirty to fifty down with salt decoction on an empty stomach. — Bonsabang 本事 (Donguibogam · Jeoneum)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Both aconites at a nyang each, boiled soft in black soybean before anything else is added — the soybean decoction is the detoxifying step and the softening is how the preparer knows it has worked. The earthworm is there for the sores rather than the wind, and gives the pill its blackness and its name. **Contains aconite main root and wild aconite, both toxic. This must not be prepared.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.