Formulas · Dispel Wind-Damp 祛風濕 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Dragon and Tiger Elixir

Yongho-dan

한글 용호단 · Pinyin Long Hu Dan

龍虎丹

The first three drugs are processed together as a group before the rest are added; the source edition's character for the steaming step is 𨠭.

Composition 構成

Choo Cao Wu
草烏 초오 · Wild Aconite

40 g
Chief 君

mixed with boy's urine and ginger and scallion juice and steamed hot · toxic
Changchul Cang Zhu
蒼朮 창출 · Black Atractylodes

40 g
Deputy 臣

mixed with boy's urine and ginger and scallion juice and steamed hot
Baekji Bai Zhi
白芷 백지 · Dahurian Angelica

40 g
Deputy 臣

mixed with boy's urine and ginger and scallion juice and steamed hot
Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

20 g
Deputy 臣
Useul Niu Xi
牛膝 우슬 · Achyranthes

20 g
Deputy 臣
Yuhyang Ru Xiang
乳香 유향 · Frankincense

12 g
Envoy 使
Molyak Mo Yao
沒藥 몰약 · Myrrh

12 g
Envoy 使

Total 184 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

Treats painful wind with shifting pain
or numbness
or pain of one half of the body
Dispels wind damp and stops pain

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Wind damp with wandering pain and numbness
Cold damp in the channels with pain

Biomedical correlates

Migratory arthralgia
Hemibody pain

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治痛風走注, 或麻木ㆍ半身痛. 草烏ㆍ蒼朮ㆍ白芷各一兩, 用童便ㆍ薑ㆍ葱汁拌𨠭熱, 入乳香ㆍ沒藥各三錢, 當歸ㆍ牛膝各五錢. 右爲末, 酒糊和丸彈子大, 每一丸, 溫酒化下. 《入門》

Translation

Treats painful wind with shifting pain, or numbness, or pain of one half of the body. Aconite kusnezoffii, atractylodes lancea and angelica dahurica, 1 nyang each, mixed with boy's urine and ginger and scallion juice and steamed hot; then add frankincense and myrrh, 3 don each, and tangkuei and achyranthes, 5 don each. Powder, make pills the size of a bullet with wine paste, and dissolve one in warm wine. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Pung)

Clinical commentary 臨床

A two-stage preparation: the three harsh drugs are first mixed with boy's urine and ginger and scallion juice and steamed, and only then are the analgesics and blood drugs added. The processing is the formula's safety measure and is also what distinguishes it from the raw-aconite pills elsewhere in the chapter. Aconite kusnezoffii at a nyang remains dangerous however steamed; the indication, shifting pain or numbness or hemibody pain, is broad enough to cover most of what the section treats. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.