Formulas · Tonify Blood 補血 · Gogeum Uigam (古今醫鑑)

Nourish the Liver Pill

Yanggan-hwan

한글 양간환 · Pinyin Yang Gan Wan

養肝丸

Composition 構成

Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

40 g
Chief 君

1 nyang
Sukjihwang Shu Di Huang
熟地黃 숙지황 · Prepared Rehmannia

40 g
Chief 君

1 nyang
Cheongung Chuan Xiong
川芎 천궁 · Cnidium

40 g
Deputy 臣

1 nyang
Baekjakyak Bai Shao
白芍藥 백작약 · White Peony

40 g
Deputy 臣

1 nyang
Bangpung Fang Feng
防風 방풍 · Siler

20 g
Assistant 佐

5 don
Jeosilja Chu Shi Zi
楮實子 저실자 · Paper Mulberry Fruit

20 g
Assistant 佐

5 don
Chajeonja Che Qian Zi
車前子 차전자 · Plantago Seed

20 g
Assistant 佐

5 don
Yuin Rui Ren
蕤仁 유인 · Prinsepia Seed

20 g
Assistant 佐

5 don

Total 240 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Treats insufficiency of the liver viscus with the eyes dim and flowering or breeding discharge and tears
and a woman's eye disease from blood vacuity

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Liver blood vacuity with dim vision
Blood vacuity eye disease in women

Biomedical correlates

Asthenopia
Dry eye with blurring

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治肝藏不足, 眼目昏花, 或生眵淚, 婦人血虛目疾. 當歸ㆍ川芎ㆍ白芍藥ㆍ熟地黃各一兩, 防風ㆍ楮實子(炒)ㆍ車前子(酒炒)ㆍ蕤仁(湯浸去皮) 各五錢. 右爲末, 蜜丸梧子大, 白湯下七十丸, 食遠時. 《醫鑑》

Translation

Treats insufficiency of the liver viscus with the eyes dim and flowering, or breeding discharge and tears, and a woman's eye disease from blood vacuity. Korean angelica, chuanxiong, white peony and prepared rehmannia 1 nyang each; saposhnikovia, paper-mulberry fruit (stir-fried), plantago seed (wine-fried) and prinsepia seed (steeped in a decoction and the skin removed) 5 don each. Powder them, make honey pills the size of parasol-tree seeds, and take seventy with plain hot water between meals. — Gogeum Uigam 醫鑑 (Donguibogam · An)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Samul-tang at full weight with four eye medicinals at half — the plainest statement in the chapter that a dim eye in a depleted patient is a blood problem first. Prinsepia seed and paper-mulberry fruit are the two drugs this chapter uses more than any other does; both are seeds, and both are held to reach the pupil. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.