Formulas · Invigorate Blood 活血祛瘀 · Uihak Gangmok (醫學綱目)

Vinegar-Boiled Sparganium Pill

Chojasamneung-hwan

한글 초자삼릉환 · Pinyin Cu Zhu San Leng Wan

醋煮三稜丸

Composition 構成

Samneung San Leng
三稜 삼릉 · Sparganium

160 g
Chief 君 4 nyang, vinegar-boiled, sliced with a bamboo knife and sun-dried
Cheongung Chuan Xiong
川芎 천궁 · Cnidium

80 g
Deputy 臣 2 nyang, vinegar-boiled
Daehwang Da Huang
大黃 대황 · Rhubarb

20 g
Assistant 佐 5 don, vinegar-roasted (醋煨)

Total 260 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

Breaks blood gu
Moves the blood and dissolves the mass

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Blood gu (血蠱) with the abdomen hard as stone

Biomedical correlates

Pelvic mass with amenorrhoea

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治血蠱. 三稜四兩(醋煮竹刀切曬乾), 川芎二兩(醋煮), 大黃五錢(醋煨). 右爲末, 醋糊和丸梧子大. 每三十丸醋湯下, 一月見效. 《綱目》

Translation

Treats blood gu. Sparganium 4 nyang, vinegar-boiled, sliced with a bamboo knife and sun-dried; chuanxiong 2 nyang, vinegar-boiled; rhubarb 5 don, vinegar-roasted. Powder them, make pills with vinegar paste the size of a firmiana seed, and take thirty at a time down with vinegar decoction; the effect is seen in a month. — Uihak Gangmok 綱目 (Donguibogam · Jeokchwi)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Three medicinals and vinegar at every stage — boiling, roasting, binding, and the vehicle. Sour enters the liver and gathers what is scattered, and the mass this formula addresses is a liver blood mass. A bamboo knife rather than a metal one for slicing is the standard instruction for medicinals whose action metal is thought to spoil. A month is given as the term, which is the only formula in this section to state one, and it marks this as a grinding treatment rather than an attacking one. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.