Formulas · Tonify Yang 補陽 · Jikji (直指)

Level Supplementation Pill

Pyeongbo-won

한글 평보원  ·  Pinyin Ping Bu Yuan

平補元

Composition 構成

Total 172 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Frequent dribbling urination
  • or enuresis
  • from kidney vacuity

Biomedical correlates

  • Urinary frequency and incontinence in the elderly

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治小便數而瀝, 如欲滲漏, 或遺尿不禁. 兎絲子(酒製)ㆍ山茱萸(酒浸焙)ㆍ當歸ㆍ益智仁 各五錢, 川楝肉ㆍ牛膝ㆍ胡蘆巴(炒)ㆍ杜沖(薑汁炒)ㆍ巴戟ㆍ肉蓯蓉(酒浸) 各三錢半, 乳香 二錢. 右爲末, 糯米糊和丸梧子大, 棗湯或鹽湯下五十丸. 《直指》

Translation

Treats frequent urination with dribbling, as if about to leak, or incontinence. Cuscuta (wine-processed), cornus (wine-steeped and baked), angelica and alpinia 5 don each; toosendan flesh, achyranthes, fenugreek (stir-fried), eucommia (ginger-juice fried), morinda and cistanche (wine-steeped) 3 don 5 pun each; frankincense 2 don. Powder them, bind with glutinous rice paste into pills the size of a firmiana seed, and take fifty with jujube or salt decoction. — Jikji 直指 (Donguibogam · Sobyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

平補, level supplementation — ten warm kidney medicinals at gentle doses, for the old bladder that leaks. Nearly the Kidney chapter's whole armoury in one pill. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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