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Minor Quiet the Kidney Pill

Soansin-hwan

한글 소안신환  ·  Pinyin Xiao An Shen Wan

小安腎丸

Pill formula, bulk amounts: the cyperus and toosendan are first boiled with 2 nyang of salt in 2 doe of water until dry, then cut and baked; all are powdered and bound with a wine paste into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; 30–50 pills on an empty stomach with salted broth or warm wine. **Note on modern practice: chuanwu (川烏) is a regulated toxic aconite requiring proper processing and professional prescription.**

Composition 構成

Total 1200 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

  • Vacuity taxation with the Kidney Qi cold and exhausted (腎氣冷憊)
  • Turbid urine at night
  • gradual wasting
  • a blackened face
  • dim vision
  • ringing ears
  • Aching decayed teeth (牙齒蛀痛)

Biomedical correlates

  • Chronic fatigue with nocturia
  • Age-related decline with tinnitus and visual dimming
  • Kidney-yang depletion with dental complaints

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治虛勞, 腎氣冷憊, 夜多漩濁, 漸覺羸瘦, 面黑, 目暗, 耳鳴, 牙齒蛀痛. 香附子ㆍ川練子 各半斤(用鹽二兩, 水二升, 同煮, 候乾剉焙), 茴香(炒) 六兩, 熟地黃 四兩, 川烏(炮)ㆍ川椒(炒) 各二兩. 右爲末, 酒糊和丸梧子大. 空心, 鹽湯或溫酒任下三五十丸. 《得效》

Translation

Treats vacuity taxation with the Kidney Qi cold and worn out: much turbid urine at night, the body gradually felt to waste, the face black, the eyes dim, the ears ringing, and the teeth aching with decay. Cyperus and toosendan fruit, half a geun each — boiled with 2 nyang of salt in 2 doe of water until dry, then cut and baked; dry-fried fennel 6 nyang; prepared rehmannia 4 nyang; blast-fried chuanwu aconite and dry-fried Sichuan pepper, 2 nyang each. Powder the above and bind with a wine paste into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; take 30–50 pills on an empty stomach with salted broth or warm wine. — Deukhyo 得效 (Donguibogam · Heoro)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The symptom list is a portrait of ageing as this chapter understood it — turbid urine at night, the body thinning, the face darkening, the eyes dimming, the ears ringing, and the teeth aching as they decay. Salt runs through the preparation because salt enters the Kidney: two of the herbs are boiled in brine before they are ever powdered. The formula is warming rather than filling, for the patient whose depletion presents as cold rather than as dryness. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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