Formulas · Tonify Yang 補陽 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)
Great Ultimate Pill
Taegeuk-hwan
한글 태극환 · Pinyin Tai Ji Wan
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
- Bogolji補骨脂 보골지 · Psoralea112 g
Chief 君 fire (屬火) - Hwangbaek黃柏 황백 · Phellodendron104 g
Deputy 臣 wood (屬木) - Jimo知母 지모 · Anemarrhena56 g
Deputy 臣 water (屬水) - Hodoyuk胡桃肉 호도육 · Walnut Flesh48 g
Assistant 佐 metal (屬金) - Sain砂仁 사인 · Amomum20 g
Envoy 使 earth (屬土)
Total 340 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
- Supplements the Kidney with all five phases in one pill
- Balances water and fire wood and metal upon an earthen pivot
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)