Formulas · Dispel Wind-Damp 祛風濕 · Sipsambang (十三方)

Frankincense Black Tiger Elixir

Yuhyang-heukho-dan

한글 유향흑호단 · Pinyin Ru Xiang Hei Hu Dan

乳香黑虎丹

醋淬七次 — quenched in vinegar seven times — is the standard preparation of pyrite, which makes it friable and raises its soluble iron. 百草霜 is the soot scraped from a hearth.

Composition 構成

Choo Cao Wu
草烏 초오 · Wild Aconite

200 g
Chief 君

toxic
Changchul Cang Zhu
蒼朮 창출 · Black Atractylodes

120 g
Deputy 臣
Baekji Bai Zhi
白芷 백지 · Dahurian Angelica

80 g
Deputy 臣
Oryeongji Wu Ling Zhi
五靈脂 오령지 · Flying Squirrel Feces

80 g
Deputy 臣
Ganghwal Qiang Huo
羌活 강활 · Notopterygium

80 g
Deputy 臣
Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

80 g
Deputy 臣
Cheongung Chuan Xiong
川芎 천궁 · Cnidium

80 g
Deputy 臣
Jayeondong Zi Ran Tong
自然銅 자연동 · Pyrite

80 g
Assistant 佐

quenched in vinegar seven times
Yuhyang Ru Xiang
乳香 유향 · Frankincense

40 g
Envoy 使
Baekchosang Bai Cao Shuang
百草霜 백초상 · Stove Soot

—
Envoy 使

as a coating

Total 840 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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 all wind cold and damp with pain in the joints and over the whole body with immediate effect
Taken at bedtime with hot foods avoided

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Wind cold damp with generalized joint pain
Cold damp obstructing the channels

Biomedical correlates

Chronic polyarthritis
Fibromyalgia

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治諸風寒濕, 骨節渾身疼痛, 立效. 草烏五兩, 蒼朮三兩, 白芷ㆍ五靈脂ㆍ羌活ㆍ當歸ㆍ川芎ㆍ自然銅(醋淬七次) 各二兩, 乳香一兩. 右爲末, 酒糊和丸梧子大, 百草霜爲衣, 臨睡溫酒下五丸或七丸, 忌食熱物. 《十三方》

Translation

Treats all wind cold and damp with pain in the joints and over the whole body, with immediate effect. Aconite kusnezoffii, 5 nyang; atractylodes lancea, 3 nyang; angelica dahurica, trogopterus dung, notopterygium, tangkuei, chuanxiong and pyrite quenched in vinegar seven times, 2 nyang each; frankincense, 1 nyang. Powder, make pills the size of a paulownia seed with wine paste, coat with hearth soot, and take five or seven with warm wine at bedtime; avoid eating hot foods. — Sipsambang 十三方 (Donguibogam · Pung)

Clinical commentary 臨床

**This must not be prepared.** Five nyang of aconite kusnezoffii is the largest quantity of the drug in the chapter, and five to seven pills at bedtime is a nightly dose of it. The contraindication — avoid eating hot foods — is the compounder's acknowledgement that the formula was already at the edge of what a patient could take. Pyrite quenched seven times in vinegar is a good piece of mineral pharmacy and the hearth-soot coating a cheap and effective way of sealing a pill. Of the aconite formulas in this section this is the one to be most wary of. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.