Formulas · Tonify Yang 補陽 · Manbyeong Hoechun (萬病回春)
Minor Secret Formula for Joining Life by Steaming the Navel
Sojeopmyeonghunje Bibang
한글 소접명훈제비방 · Pinyin Xiao Jie Ming Xun Qi Mi Fang
Composition 構成
- Yuhyang乳香 유향 · Frankincense8 g
Chief 君2 don
- Molyak沒藥 몰약 · Myrrh8 g
Chief 君2 don
- Oryeongji五靈脂 오령지 · Flying Squirrel Feces8 g
Deputy 臣鼯鼠糞, 2 don
- Yangdugeom兩頭尖 양두첨 · Anemone Root (pointed at both ends)8 g
Deputy 臣兩頭尖, 2 don
- Sokdan續斷 속단 · Dipsacus8 g
Deputy 臣2 don
- Sahyang麝香 사향 · Musk (prohibited)0.4 g
Assistant 佐1 pun · CITES
- Cheongyeom靑鹽 청염 · Blue Rock Salt8 g
Envoy 使2 don
- Gyomaek蕎麥 교맥 · Buckwheat—
Envoy 使蕎麥麪, dough ring on the navel
- Goepi槐皮 괴피 · Pagoda Tree Bark—
Envoy 使a slice laid over the powder
- Aeyeop艾葉 애엽 · Mugwort Leaf—
Envoy 使bean-sized cones, one for each year of age
Total 48.4 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
- Strengthens and secures the root
- protects the body
- steams the source and removes the hundred diseases
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- The true origin lost through the seven affects and six desires
Biomedical correlates
- Chronic debility — external use
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
夫人賴精血而成形, 其在胞胎, 惟有臍帶與母氣相通, 隨母呼吸, 十月脫胎, 漸長成人. 七情六慾內外交侵, 喪失眞元, 殞軀喪命, 良可䏚也. 余哀悶世人, 特傳良方, 壯固根蔕, 保護形軀, 熏蒸本源, 除却百病, 其效如神. 每年中秋日熏蒸一次, 却病延年. 乳香ㆍ沒藥ㆍ鼯鼠糞ㆍ靑鹽ㆍ兩頭尖ㆍ續斷 各二錢, 麝香 一分. 右爲末, 令人食飽仰臥, 用蕎麥麪水和捻一團, 徑過寸餘<span class='sochu'>臍大則徑二寸</span>, 內入藥末安臍上, 用槐皮一片覆圈藥之上, 以豆許艾壯灸之. 百脈和暢, 冷汗如雨, 不可令痛, 痛則反泄眞氣. 灸至行年歲數而止. 無病者連日灸之, 有病則三日一次, 灸至腹內作聲作痛, 大便有涎沫等物出爲止. 《回春》
Translation
A person relies on essence and blood to take form; while in the womb it is only the navel cord that communicates with the mother's qi, following her breathing, and at ten months it sheds the womb and grows by degrees into an adult. The seven affects and six desires then invade from within and without, the true origin is lost, and the body perishes and life is spent — which is truly to be pitied. Grieving for the people of the world, I pass on this good formula to strengthen and secure the root, protect the body, steam the source and remove the hundred diseases; its effect is like a spirit. Steam once each year on the mid-autumn day, and disease is kept off and years extended. Frankincense, myrrh, flying-squirrel droppings, blue salt, anemone root and dipsacus 2 don each; musk 1 pun. Powder them; have the person eat their fill and lie on their back, knead buckwheat flour with water into a ring rather over a chon across <span class='sochu'>if the navel is large, two chon</span>, put the powder inside it on the navel, cover the ring of medicine with a slice of pagoda-tree bark, and burn bean-sized moxa cones on it. The hundred vessels grow harmonious and free and cold sweat comes like rain. It must not be allowed to hurt — pain discharges the true qi instead. Moxa to the number of one's years and stop. Those without disease moxa on consecutive days; those with disease once in three days, moxaing until there is a sound and a pain within the belly and drool and such matter come out in the stool. — Manbyeong Hoechun 回春 (Donguibogam · Je)