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Great Ultimate Pill

Taegeuk-hwan

한글 태극환  ·  Pinyin Tai Ji Wan

太極丸

Pill formula, bulk amounts: powdered and bound with honey into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; 30–50 pills with salted water on an empty stomach. The five-phase assignments shown with each medicinal are written into the source text itself.

Composition 構成

Total 340 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

  • Kidney vacuity (腎虛) treated as a whole-system imbalance
  • Mixed Kidney depletion patterns not cleanly Yin or Yang
  • Long-course kidney supplementation with philosophical economy

Biomedical correlates

  • Chronic fatigue with lower-back weakness
  • Age-related decline in kidney-sphere functions
  • Maintenance tonification

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治腎虛. 黃柏 二兩六錢(屬木), 知母 一兩四錢(屬水), 破故紙 二兩八錢(屬火), 胡桃肉 一兩二錢(屬金), 縮砂 五錢(屬土). 右爲末, 蜜丸梧子大. 空心, 鹽湯下三五十丸. 《入門》

Translation

Treats Kidney vacuity. Phellodendron 2 nyang 6 don (belonging to Wood); anemarrhena 1 nyang 4 don (belonging to Water); psoralea 2 nyang 8 don (belonging to Fire); walnut flesh 1 nyang 2 don (belonging to Metal); amomum 5 don (belonging to Earth). Powder the above and bind with honey into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; take 30–50 pills with salted water on an empty stomach. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Heoro)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The only formula in the chapter with a cosmology printed in its dosage column — each herb tagged to its phase, psoralea's fire leading and amomum's earth anchoring, so that supplementing one kidney becomes a miniature rebalancing of the entire five-phase wheel. Prescription as diagram. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.

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