Formulas · Tonify Yin 補陰 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Weighed Gold Elixir

Chinggeum-dan

한글 칭금단 · Pinyin Cheng Jin Dan

秤金丹

Composition 構成

Sukjihwang Shu Di Huang
熟地黃 숙지황 · Prepared Rehmannia

75 g
Chief 君
Jigolpi Di Gu Pi
地骨皮 지골피 · Lycium Root Bark

112.5 g
Deputy 臣 wine soaked and sun-dried with the following
Yeonhwaye Lian Hua Rui
蓮花蘂 연화예 · Lotus Stamen

112.5 g
Deputy 臣 wine soaked and sun-dried
Goegakja Huai Jiao Zi
槐角子 괴각자 · Pagoda Tree Fruit

112.5 g
Deputy 臣 wine soaked and sun-dried
Bakha Bo He
薄荷 박하 · Mint

112.5 g
Assistant 佐
Molseokja Mo Shi Zi
沒石子 몰석자 · Aleppo Gall

37.5 g
Assistant 佐
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

18.75 g
Assistant 佐
Mokhyang Mu Xiang
木香 목향 · Costus Root

18.75 g
Envoy 使

Total 600 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

Enriches yin and nourishes Blood
Blackens the beard and hair
Restores youthful appearance

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Greying of beard and hair
Yin and Blood depletion in ageing

Biomedical correlates

Age-related greying

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

又名一秤金. 久服, 鬚髮黑, 返老還童. 熟地黃二兩, 地骨皮ㆍ蓮花蕋ㆍ槐角子(俱用酒浸, 夏一日, 春秋三日, 冬六日, 取出曬乾)ㆍ薄荷各三兩, 沒石子一兩, 人參ㆍ木香各五錢. 右爲末, 蜜丸芡實大, 每一丸, 噙化, 溫酒送下, 日三服. 《入門》

Translation

Also called Ilchinggeum (One Weight of Gold). Taken long, the beard and hair blacken and age turns back to youth. Prepared rehmannia 2 nyang; lycium root bark, lotus stamen, and pagoda tree fruit (all soaked in wine — one day in summer, three in spring and autumn, six in winter — then taken out and sun-dried) and mint, 3 nyang each; Aleppo gall 1 nyang; ginseng and costus root 5 don each. Powder the above and form into honey pills the size of euryale seeds. Hold one pill in the mouth to dissolve and send down with warm wine, three times daily. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Mobal)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The seasonal soaking schedule is the interesting detail: one day in summer against six in winter, scaled inversely to ambient temperature, which is an empirical correction for extraction rate long before anyone could measure it. Aleppo gall supplies tannin and appears throughout this chapter's darkening formulas, here taken internally rather than applied. The pill is held in the mouth to dissolve rather than swallowed, which suits the mint and costus root and puts the medicine in contact with the upper body where the hair is. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.