Formulas · Invigorate Blood 活血祛瘀 · Uihak Jeonggam (醫學正傳)

Frankincense Settle the Pain Pill

Yuhyang-jeongtong-hwan

한글 유향정통환 · Pinyin Ru Xiang Ding Tong Wan

乳香定痛丸

Jujube flesh as the binder makes a softer and sweeter pill than wine paste, suited to long courses.

Composition 構成

Changchul Cang Zhu
蒼朮 창출 · Black Atractylodes

80 g
Chief 君
Cheono Chuan Wu
川烏 천오 · Aconite Main Root

40 g
Chief 君

blast-fried · toxic
Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

40 g
Deputy 臣
Cheongung Chuan Xiong
川芎 천궁 · Cnidium

40 g
Deputy 臣
Jeonghyang Ding Xiang
丁香 정향 · Clove

20 g
Assistant 佐
Yuhyang Ru Xiang
乳香 유향 · Frankincense

12 g
Envoy 使
Molyak Mo Yao
沒藥 몰약 · Myrrh

12 g
Envoy 使
Daejo Da Zao
大棗 대조 · Jujube

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Envoy 使

as jujube flesh for the pills

Total 244 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 pain in the joints over the whole body
Moves the blood and dries damp to stop pain

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Cold damp with blood stasis in the joints
Generalized joint pain

Biomedical correlates

Chronic polyarthritis
Osteoarthritis with cold aggravation

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治遍身骨節痛. 蒼朮二兩, 川烏(炮)ㆍ當歸ㆍ川芎各一兩, 丁香五錢, 乳香ㆍ沒藥各三錢. 右末, 棗肉和丸梧子大, 溫酒呑下五六十丸. 《醫鑑》

Translation

Treats pain in the joints over the whole body. Atractylodes lancea, 2 nyang; blast-fried aconite kusnezoffii, tangkuei and chuanxiong, 1 nyang each; clove, 5 don; frankincense and myrrh, 3 don each. Powder, make pills the size of a paulownia seed with jujube flesh, and swallow fifty or sixty with warm wine. — Uihak Jeonggam 醫鑑 (Donguibogam · Pung)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The most proportionate of the pain pills in this section: atractylodes leads rather than aconite, the aconite is blast-fried and at half the atractylodes' weight, and the rest is the blood-moving pair with clove and the two resins. Jujube flesh as the binder tells you it was meant to be taken for a long time, and fifty or sixty small pills with warm wine is a modest daily dose. For chronic cold-aggravated joint pain this is the formula of the group a cautious practitioner would have chosen. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.