Formulas · Tonify Yin 補陰 · Manbyeong Hoechun (萬病回春)

Blacken the Beard Wine

Osu-ju

한글 오수주 · Pinyin Wu Xu Jiu

烏鬚酒

Composition 構成

Saengjihwang Sheng Di Huang
生地黃 생지황 · Raw Rehmannia

160 g
Chief 君
Hasuo He Shou Wu
何首烏 하수오 · Fleeceflower Root

160 g
Chief 君
Maekmundong Mai Men Dong
麥門冬 맥문동 · Liriope

320 g
Deputy 臣
Cheonmundong Tian Men Dong
天門冬 천문동 · Asparagus Root

80 g
Deputy 臣
Sukjihwang Shu Di Huang
熟地黃 숙지황 · Prepared Rehmannia

80 g
Deputy 臣
Gugija Gou Qi Zi
枸杞子 구기자 · Goji Berry

80 g
Deputy 臣
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

40 g
Deputy 臣
Useul Niu Xi
牛膝 우슬 · Achyranthes

80 g
Assistant 佐
Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

80 g
Assistant 佐
Hwangmi Huang Mi
黃米 황미 · Yellow Millet

≈18000 g
Envoy 使

黃米, 3 mal of yellow glutinous millet
Guk Qu
麴 국 · Brewing Leaven (wine starter)

—
Envoy 使

好麴

Total ≈19080 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Volume measures (升 seung, 合 hop, 斗 mal) are approximated at 1合≈60g and marked ≈. 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 taxation and supplements vacuity
Blackens beard and hair

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

As for Secure the Root Wine

Biomedical correlates

Convalescent tonic

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治同上. 黃米三斗, 麥門冬八兩, 生地黃ㆍ何首烏各四兩, 天門冬ㆍ熟地黃ㆍ枸杞子ㆍ牛膝ㆍ當歸各二兩, 人參一兩. 右爲末, 入好麴拌飯, 如常釀法, 待酒熟, 榨出取淸. 每日淸晨, 飮一二盃, 微醺爲度. 忌白酒ㆍ蘿葍ㆍ葱ㆍ蒜ㆍ牛肉. 黃米, 卽粘黍, 米色黃也. 《回春》

Translation

Treats the same as above. Yellow millet 3 mal; ophiopogon 8 nyang; fresh rehmannia and fleeceflower 4 nyang each; asparagus, cooked rehmannia, lycium fruit, achyranthes and angelica 2 nyang each; ginseng 1 nyang. Powder them, mix with good leaven into the cooked millet as in the usual brewing method, wait until the wine is ready, and press out the clear part. Every day at first light drink one or two cups, to the point of slight tipsiness. Avoid white wine, radish, scallion, garlic and beef. Yellow millet is glutinous millet, the grain being yellow. — Manbyeong Hoechun 回春 (Donguibogam · Sinhyeong)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Gobon-ju brewed rather than steeped — the medicinals go into the mash with the leaven and ferment with it, and fleeceflower is added for the beard. 微醺爲度, to slight tipsiness, is the dose, and the Hoechun gives the list of foods to avoid that every fleeceflower formula carries. The section's four formulas are two pills and two wines, and the wines are the ones a household could make. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.