Formulas · Dispel Wind-Damp 祛風濕 · Uibang Yuchwi (醫方類聚)

Musk Pill

Sahyang-won

한글 사향원 · Pinyin She Xiang Yuan

麝香元

The raw black soybean is included as the classical antidote to aconite, not for its own action.

Composition 構成

Cheono Chuan Wu
川烏 천오 · Aconite Main Root

—
Chief 君

three large roots · toxic
Jiryong Di Long
地龍 지룡 · Earthworm

20 g
Deputy 臣

raw
Jeongal Quan Xie
全蠍 전갈 · Scorpion (toxic)

—
Deputy 臣

twenty-one · toxic
Heukdu Hei Dou
黑豆 흑두 · Black Soybean

10 g
Assistant 佐

raw
Sahyang She Xiang
麝香 사향 · Musk (prohibited)

1 g
Envoy 使

CITES
Nami Nuo Mi
糯米 나미 · Glutinous Rice

—
Envoy 使

as glutinous rice paste for the pills

Total 31 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 3 ingredients 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 white tiger joint-running pain wandering without fixed place like insects crawling
quiet by day and severe at night
Taken until sweat comes

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Wind toxin wandering in the channels with nocturnal pain
Wind damp with crawling sensation

Biomedical correlates

Nocturnal arthralgia
Restless legs with pain

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治白虎歷節疼痛, 遊走無定, 狀如虫行, 晝靜夜劇. 川烏(大者) 三箇, 全蝎二十一箇, 地龍(生) 五錢, 黑豆(生) 二錢半, 麝香一字. 右爲末, 糯米糊和丸菉豆大, 空心溫酒下七丸或十丸, 出汗便差. 《得效》

Translation

Treats white tiger joint-running pain wandering without fixed place, the condition like insects crawling, quiet by day and severe at night. Aconite kusnezoffii, three large roots; whole scorpion, twenty-one; raw earthworm, 5 don; raw black soybean, 2 don 5 fun; musk, one ja. Powder, make pills the size of mung beans with glutinous rice paste, and take seven or ten with warm wine on an empty stomach; when the sweat comes there is recovery. — Uibang Yuchwi 得效 (Donguibogam · Pung)

Clinical commentary 臨床

**This must not be prepared.** Three whole raw-weight aconite roots and twenty-one scorpions in one batch, with musk from a CITES-listed species. The raw black soybean is the interesting inclusion: the materia medica treats it as the antidote to aconite poisoning, and putting it into the pill itself is a compounder hedging against his own formula. The indication — pain like insects crawling, quiet by day and severe at night — is a precise description of nocturnal paraesthesiae, and it is the kind of symptom the tradition recorded better than it treated. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.