Formulas · Tonify Yang 補陽 · Hwaje Gukbang (和劑局方)
Minor Cuscuta Pill
Sotosaja-won
한글 소토사자원 · Pinyin Xiao Tu Si Zi Yuan
Pill formula, bulk amounts: powdered and bound with a paste made from 7.5 don of the dioscorea into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; 70–90 pills with warm wine or salted broth.
Composition 構成
- Tosaja菟絲子 토사자 · Cuscuta200 g
Chief 君 - Sanyak山藥 산약 · Chinese Yam80 g
Deputy 臣 - Yeonjayuk蓮子肉 연자육 · Lotus Seed80 g
Deputy 臣 - Baekbokryeong白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)40 g
Assistant 佐
Total 400 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
- Restores a Kidney damaged by taxation and a Yang Qi grown scant
- Secures a urine that runs slippery and frequent
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Vacuity taxation with the Kidney damaged and the Yang Qi waning (虛勞腎損 陽氣衰少)
- Urine slippery and frequent (小便滑數)
- Kidney insecurity with frequency
Biomedical correlates
- Urinary frequency with fatigue
- Nocturia
- Kidney-yang depletion presentations
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治虛勞腎損, 陽氣衰少, 小便滑數. 兎絲子 五兩, 山藥 <span class='sochu'>內七錢半作糊</span>ㆍ蓮肉 各二兩, 白茯苓 一兩. 右爲末, 山藥糊和丸梧子大. 溫酒或鹽湯下七九十丸. 《局方》
Translation
Treats vacuity taxation with the Kidney damaged, the Yang Qi waning and scant, and urine slippery and frequent. Cuscuta 5 nyang; dioscorea <span class='sochu'>— of which 7.5 don is made into the paste —</span> and lotus seed flesh, 2 nyang each; white poria 1 nyang. Powder the above and bind with the dioscorea paste into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; take 70–90 pills with warm wine or salted broth. — Gukbang 局方 (Donguibogam · Heoro)