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Eucommia Pill

Ducheung-hwan

한글 두충환 · Pinyin Du Zhong Wan

杜沖丸

Pill formula, bulk amounts: powdered and bound with refined honey and pig's spinal marrow into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; 80–100 pills on an empty stomach with salted broth.

Composition 構成

Duchung Du Zhong
杜仲 두충 · Eucommia Bark

40 g
Chief 君 ginger-juice-fried
Gupan Gui Ban
龜板 구판 · Tortoise Plastron

40 g
Chief 君 butter-roasted
Hwangbaek Huang Bai
黃柏 황백 · Phellodendron

40 g
Deputy 臣 salt-water-fried
Jimo Zhi Mu
知母 지모 · Anemarrhena

40 g
Deputy 臣 salt-water-fried
Gugija Gou Qi Zi
枸杞子 구기자 · Goji Berry

40 g
Deputy 臣
Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

40 g
Deputy 臣
Baekjakyak Bai Shao
白芍藥 백작약 · White Peony

40 g
Deputy 臣
Hwanggi Huang Qi
黃芪 황기 · Astragalus

40 g
Deputy 臣
Obaeja Wu Bei Zi
五倍子 오배자 · Chinese Gall

40 g
Assistant 佐
Bogolji Bu Gu Zhi
補骨脂 보골지 · Psoralea

40 g
Assistant 佐 dry-fried

Total 400 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

Steadies a lumbus that has gone soft and slack
Enriches the Yin and drains the fire beneath a large vacuous pulse

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Kidney vacuity lumbar pain with movement soft and weak (動止軟弱)
A pulse large and vacuous with unremitting ache (脉大虛疼不已)
Depletion heat presenting as low back weakness

Biomedical correlates

Chronic low back pain with weakness and night heat
Lumbar instability with depletion
Long-course restorative therapy

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治腎虛腰痛, 動止軟弱, 脉大虛, 疼不已. 杜沖(薑汁炒)ㆍ龜板(酥灸)ㆍ黃柏ㆍ知母(幷鹽水炒)ㆍ枸杞子ㆍ五倍子ㆍ當歸ㆍ白芍藥ㆍ黃芪ㆍ破故紙(炒) 各一兩. 右爲末, 煉蜜入猪脊髓和丸梧子大, 空心, 鹽湯呑下八十丸或百丸. 《入門》

Translation

Treats Kidney vacuity lumbar pain, with movement soft and weak, a pulse large and vacuous, and an ache that does not let up. Ginger-juice-fried eucommia, butter-roasted turtle plastron, phellodendron and anemarrhena both salt-water-fried, lycium fruit, gallnut, Korean angelica, white peony, astragalus, and dry-fried psoralea, 1 nyang each. Powder the above and bind with refined honey and pig's spinal marrow into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; take 80 or 100 pills on an empty stomach with salted broth. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Yo)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The one Kidney vacuity formula on the shelf that cools rather than warms — phellodendron and anemarrhena, both salt-processed, sitting beside the usual builders. The signs that select it are given precisely: movement soft and weak, a pulse large but vacuous, and an ache that never lets up. That combination points to Yin vacuity with fire rather than Yang vacuity with cold, and giving the warming pills here would make it worse. Pig's spinal marrow in the binder is the chapter's like-for-like logic again, this time aimed at the spine itself. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.