Formulas · Invigorate Blood 活血祛瘀 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Frankincense Settle Pain Powder

Yuhyangjeongtong-san

한글 유향정통산 · Pinyin Ru Xiang Ding Tong San

乳香定痛散

The transcription writes the name 乳香㝎痛散 and 白术; these are printed as 乳香定痛散 and 白朮 under the project's glyph corrections, and the name is registered in the corrected form. 生芐 is raw rehmannia, 芐 standing for 地黃. Given as 各等分 with no absolute weights; grams entered at 40 each as a notional equal share. The alternate name 活血止痛散 carries its own source label 醫鑑 and is not separately registered on this site.

Composition 構成

Danggwi Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

40 g
Chief 君

equal parts
Yuhyang Ru Xiang
乳香 유향 · Frankincense

40 g
Chief 君

equal parts
Moryak Mo Yao
沒藥 몰약 · Myrrh

40 g
Chief 君

equal parts
Baekji Bai Zhi
白芷 백지 · Dahurian Angelica

40 g
Deputy 臣

equal parts
Saengjihwang Sheng Di Huang
生地黃 생지황 · Raw Rehmannia

40 g
Deputy 臣

raw rehmannia (生芐), equal parts
Mokdanpi Mu Dan Pi
牡丹皮 목단피 · Moutan Bark

40 g
Deputy 臣

equal parts
Jeokjagyak Chi Shao
赤芍藥 적작약 · Red Peony

40 g
Deputy 臣

equal parts
Cheongung Chuan Xiong
川芎 천궁 · Cnidium

40 g
Deputy 臣

equal parts
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

40 g
Assistant 佐

equal parts
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

40 g
Envoy 使

equal parts
Dongbyeon Tong Bian
童便 동변 · Child's Urine

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Envoy 使

half child's urine and half warm wine, as the vehicle

Total 400 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

Settles the pain of all injuries

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Pain of every kind of injury and contusion

Biomedical correlates

Post-traumatic musculoskeletal pain
Contusion and sprain pain

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治諸傷損疼痛. 白芷ㆍ當歸ㆍ生芐ㆍ牡丹皮ㆍ赤芍藥ㆍ川芎ㆍ乳香ㆍ沒藥ㆍ白朮ㆍ甘草各等分. 右爲末, 每二錢, 溫酒ㆍ童便各半, 調勻服之. 《入門》 ○一名活血止痛散. 《醫鑑》

Translation

Treats the pain of all injuries and contusions. Angelica dahurica, angelica sinensis, raw rehmannia, moutan bark, red peony, cnidium, frankincense, myrrh, white atractylodes and licorice, in equal parts. Powder them; take 2 don at a time in half warm wine and half child's urine, stirred even, and drink it. ○ It is also called Hwalhyeoljitong-san. — Immun 入門, Uigam 醫鑑 (Donguibogam · Jesang)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Four Substances with the resins added. Angelica, cnidium, red peony and raw rehmannia are 四物湯 with the red peony standing in for the white and the raw rehmannia for the cooked — the nourishing frame — and onto it go frankincense and myrrh, the two resins that are the materia medica's standard pair for traumatic pain, with moutan bark to cool the blood, angelica dahurica to reach the surface, and atractylodes and licorice to protect the stomach from the resins. Taken as a powder in equal parts of warm wine and child's urine. The indication is simply pain after injury, with no mention of bleeding, no purgative and no mineral, which puts it with 當歸鬚散 among the formulas meant for the days and weeks after the acute event rather than for the hour of it. Frankincense and myrrh are plausible analgesics in that setting, and the formula is one of the few in the chapter whose claim and whose contents are proportionate to each other. A second 乳香散 of similar purpose stands in this section and a third in the section on flogging wounds. **Child's urine is a human material and would not be used today.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.