Formulas · Invigorate Blood 活血祛瘀 · Dongwon (東垣)

Frankincense Chase the Pain Powder

Yuhyangjintong-san

한글 유향진통산 · Pinyin Ru Xiang Chen Tong San

乳香趁痛散

Powdered; 2 don stirred into warm wine. **Note on modern practice: tiger shin bone (虎脛骨) is from a critically endangered species protected under CITES Appendix I; its trade is prohibited and contemporary practice substitutes dog bone (狗骨) or omits it. Typhonium and scorpion are toxic medicinals requiring proper processing. Recorded as classical text.**

Composition 構成

Golswaebo Gu Sui Bu
骨碎補 골쇄보 · Drynaria

12 g
Chief 君 dry-fried
Jayeondong Zi Ran Tong
自然銅 자연동 · Pyrite

12 g
Chief 君 calcined and quenched in vinegar
Changija Cang Er Zi
蒼耳子 창이자 · Cocklebur Fruit

12 g
Deputy 臣 dry-fried
Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

12 g
Deputy 臣
Jeokjakyak Chi Shao
赤芍藥 적작약 · Red Peony

12 g
Deputy 臣
Hogol Hu Gu
虎骨 호골 · Tiger Bone (prohibited)

8 g
Deputy 臣 tiger shin bone, wine-roasted — see note
Gupan Gui Ban
龜板 구판 · Tortoise Plastron

8 g
Deputy 臣 wine-roasted
Baekji Bai Zhi
白芷 백지 · Dahurian Angelica

12 g
Assistant 佐
Yukgye Rou Gui
肉桂 육계 · Cinnamon Bark

12 g
Assistant 佐 bark (桂皮)
Bangpung Fang Feng
防風 방풍 · Siler

12 g
Assistant 佐
Hyeolgal Xue Jie
血竭 혈갈 · Dragon's Blood Resin

12 g
Assistant 佐
Molyak Mo Yao
沒藥 몰약 · Myrrh

12 g
Assistant 佐
Baekbuja Bai Fu Zi
白附子 백부자 · Typhonium Rhizome

12 g
Assistant 佐
Useul Niu Xi
牛膝 우슬 · Achyranthes

4 g
Assistant 佐
Cheonma Tian Ma
天麻 천마 · Gastrodia

4 g
Assistant 佐
Binrang Bing Lang
檳榔 빈랑 · Areca Seed

4 g
Assistant 佐
Ogapi Wu Jia Pi
五加皮 오가피 · Acanthopanax

4 g
Assistant 佐
Ganghwal Qiang Huo
羌活 강활 · Notopterygium

4 g
Assistant 佐
Jeongal Quan Xie
全蠍 전갈 · Scorpion (toxic)

4 g
Assistant 佐

Total 172 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

Chases the pain of a wrench a blow or a fall
Knits bone and sinew with shell bone and metal beneath the movers

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Lumbar pain from wrenching strain
a blow
or a fall (治挫閃打墮腰痛)
Traumatic injury with severe pain
Bone and sinew injury

Biomedical correlates

Acute traumatic low back injury
Post-fall back pain
Contusion and strain injury

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治挫閃打墮腰痛. 骨碎補(炒)ㆍ蒼耳子(炒)ㆍ自然銅(火煆醋淬)ㆍ白芷ㆍ桂皮ㆍ防風ㆍ當歸ㆍ赤芍藥ㆍ血竭ㆍ沒藥ㆍ白附子各三錢, 虎脛骨(酒灸)ㆍ龜板(酒灸) 各二錢, 牛膝ㆍ天麻ㆍ檳榔ㆍ五加皮ㆍ羌活各一錢, 加全蝎一錢. 右爲末, 每二錢, 溫酒調下. 《東垣》

Translation

Treats lumbar pain from a wrench, a blow, or a fall. Dry-fried drynaria, dry-fried cocklebur fruit, pyrite calcined and quenched in vinegar, angelica dahurica, cinnamon bark, saposhnikovia, Korean angelica, red peony, dragon's blood resin, myrrh, and typhonium, 3 don each; wine-roasted tiger shin bone and wine-roasted turtle plastron, 2 don each; achyranthes, gastrodia, areca nut, acanthopanax, and notopterygium, 1 don each; add scorpion 1 don. Powder the above; take 2 don stirred into warm wine. — Dongwon 東垣 (Donguibogam · Yo)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Nineteen ingredients, and the architecture is worth reading: drynaria and pyrite at the head for the bone, then the blood-movers, then shell and bone beneath, and finally the wind medicinals and scorpion to reach the sinew. Drynaria's name — 骨碎補, *supplement for shattered bone* — says what the tradition used it for, and it remains the standing herb for fracture and bone injury. This is the chapter's most complete trauma formula. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.