Formulas · Warm the Interior 溫裏 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Four Ingredients Fennel Powder

Samihoehyang-san

한글 사미회향산 · Pinyin Si Wei Hui Xiang San

四味茴香散

Composition 構成

Oyak Wu Yao
烏藥 오약 · Lindera

40 g
Chief 君

wine-steeped a night and baked
Hoehyang Hui Xiang
茴香 회향 · Fennel Fruit

40 g
Chief 君
Yangang Gao Liang Jiang
良薑 양강 · Lesser Galangal

40 g
Deputy 臣
Cheongpi Qing Pi
靑皮 청피 · Green Tangerine Peel

40 g
Deputy 臣
Ju Jiu
酒 주 · Wine

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Envoy 使

hot wine as the draught, when the attack comes

Total 160 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 a drawing pain of the scrotum and stalk past bearing
commonly called small intestine qi

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Drawing pain of scrotum and penis

Biomedical correlates

Inguinal hernia pain

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治囊莖抽痛不可忍, 俗名小腸氣. 烏藥(酒浸一宿焙)ㆍ良薑ㆍ茴香ㆍ靑皮各一兩. 右爲末, 每二錢, 發時熱酒調下. 《入門》

Translation

Treats a drawing pain of the scrotum and stalk past bearing, commonly called small intestine qi. Lindera (wine-steeped a night and baked), lesser galangal, fennel and green tangerine peel 1 nyang each. Powder them and take 2 don at a time stirred into hot wine when the attack comes. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Jeoneum)

Clinical commentary 臨床

發時熱酒調下 — taken in hot wine at the moment of the attack. Kept ground and ready, like the Chest chapter's powders, which tells you the pain was understood to come in bouts. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.