Formulas · Regulate Qi 理氣 · Gogeum Uigam (古今醫鑑)

Immortals' Cyperus and Motherwort Elixir

Sinseonbuik-dan

한글 신선부익단  ·  Pinyin Shen Xian Fu Yi Dan

神仙附益丹

Composition 構成

Total 1160 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • The hundred diseases of women
  • with childlessness

Biomedical correlates

  • Infertility
  • Menstrual disorders

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

香附米 一斤, 童便浸透, 水洗露一宿, 再浸再露再曬, 如此三次, 用好醋浸透一宿, 曬乾爲末. 益母草 十二兩, 東流水洗淨, 烘乾爲末. 右別以香附 四兩, 艾葉 一兩, 煮取汁, 用三分醋七分, 和前二末, 爲丸梧子大, 空心臨臥, 淡醋湯下七九十丸. 不惟治婦人百病, 而生育之功效如神. 《醫鑑》

Translation

Cyperus 1 geun: steeped through in child's urine, washed in water and left out for a night; steeped again, left out again and sun-dried again, three times in this way; then steeped through in good vinegar for a night, sun-dried and powdered. Motherwort 12 nyang: washed clean in east-flowing water, dried over a low fire and powdered. Separately boil 4 nyang of cyperus and 1 nyang of mugwort leaf and take the liquor; using three parts of it to seven parts vinegar, mix with the two foregoing powders and make pills the size of a firmiana seed. On an empty stomach and at bedtime take seventy to ninety down with weak vinegar decoction. It not only treats the hundred diseases of women — its merit in engendering and bearing is as though by spirit. — Gogeum Uigam 醫鑑 (Donguibogam · Buin)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Two medicinals, and the whole formula is in the processing. The cyperus is steeped in child's urine, washed, exposed overnight and dried three times over, then steeped in vinegar — six operations before it is powdered. The Uterus chapter's cyperus pills at 13.9 process the same medicinal four and seven ways; this one does it by repetition rather than by variety. Child's urine directs downward and cools, vinegar directs to the liver and blood, and the alternation of steeping and exposure was held to let each take hold in turn. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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