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Immortals' Black Cloud Elixir

Sinseonoun-dan

한글 신선오운단  ·  Pinyin Shen Xian Wu Yun Dan

神仙烏雲丹

Composition 構成

Total 2137.5 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

  • Greying with Kidney vacuity
  • Hair whitening with lumbar weakness
  • Depletion of essence and Blood

Biomedical correlates

  • Age-related greying
  • Premature canities

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

烏鬚黑髮, 返老還童, 神效無比. 何首烏 八兩(入砂鍋內, 黑豆同蒸半日, 去豆, 用好酒浸七日曬乾, 如此蒸七次), 破故紙 四兩(酒洗, 砂鍋內炒黃), 旱蓮汁 二兩, 槐角 二兩(爲末), 胡桐淚 一兩(爲末). 右細末, 棗肉 二斤, 胡桃仁 半斤, 擣爲丸梧子大, 空心, 鹽湯下五七十丸. 服三月, 勿輟. 《醫鑑》

Translation

Blackens the beard and hair and turns age back to youth, with divine effect beyond compare. Fleeceflower root 8 nyang (put in an earthenware pot, steamed half a day with black soybean, the beans discarded, soaked seven days in good wine and sun-dried — steamed thus seven times); psoralea 4 nyang (wine washed, dry-fried yellow in an earthenware pot); eclipta juice 2 nyang; pagoda tree fruit 2 nyang (powdered); poplar resin 1 nyang (powdered). Powder finely, and with jujube flesh 2 geun and walnut kernel half a geun pound into pills the size of firmiana seeds. Take 50 to 70 on an empty stomach with salt decoction. Take for three months without interruption. — Uigam 醫鑑 (Donguibogam · Mobal)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The sevenfold steam-and-dry of fleeceflower root with black soybean is the standard processing that converts it from a laxative into a supplementing agent, and it is given here in full — worth reading as the reference procedure. Note also the three-month course stated as a requirement rather than a suggestion: hair grows roughly a centimetre a month, so any claim about colour change needs at least that long to be visible, and the text is being realistic. Fleeceflower root has been associated with idiosyncratic hepatotoxicity in modern case reports, and prolonged use warrants liver monitoring. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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