Formulas · Tonify Yang 補陽 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Warm the Navel Belly-Band Formula

Onjedudu-bang

한글 온제두두방 · Pinyin Wen Qi Dou Du Fang

溫臍兜肚方

The transcription writes 兜肚 as 兜屠 throughout; restored.

Composition 構成

Baekdanhyang Bai Tan Xiang
白檀香 백단향 · Sandalwood

40 g
Chief 君
Yeongyanggak Ling Yang Jiao
羚羊角 영양각 · Saiga Antelope Horn (prohibited)

40 g
Deputy 臣

· CITES
Jeonghyangpi Ding Xiang Pi
丁香皮 정향피 · Clove Bark

28 g
Deputy 臣

7 don
Yeongneunghyang Ling Ling Xiang
零陵香 영릉향 · Lingling Fragrant Herb (species undetermined)

20 g
Deputy 臣

5 don
Chimhyang Chen Xiang
沈香 침향 · Agarwood

20 g
Deputy 臣

5 don
Gamsong Gan Song
甘松 감송향 · Nardostachys

20 g
Deputy 臣

5 don
Hyeolgal Xue Jie
血竭 혈갈 · Dragon's Blood Resin

20 g
Deputy 臣

5 don
Baekji Bai Zhi
白芷 백지 · Dahurian Angelica

20 g
Assistant 佐

5 don
Maduryeong Ma Dou Ling
馬兜鈴 마두령 · Aristolochia Fruit

20 g
Assistant 佐

5 don
Mokbyeolja Mu Bie Zi
木鼈子 목별자 · Momordica Seed (toxic)

20 g
Assistant 佐

5 don · toxic
Seungma Sheng Ma
升麻 승마 · Cimicifuga

20 g
Assistant 佐

5 don
Sahyang She Xiang
麝香 사향 · Musk (prohibited)

3.6 g
Assistant 佐

9 pun · CITES
Aeyeop Ai Ye
艾葉 애엽 · Mugwort Leaf

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Envoy 使

熟艾, quilted into the band with the powder

Total 271.6 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

Governs cold accumulation
seminal emission and white turbidity
and in women red and white discharge
irregular menses and long childlessness

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Cold in the lower burner — emission
turbidity
discharge
infertility

Biomedical correlates

Chronic pelvic cold
Infertility — external use

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

專主冷積ㆍ遺精ㆍ白濁, 婦人赤白帶下ㆍ經脉不調ㆍ久不受孕. 白檀ㆍ羚羊角各一兩, 零陵香ㆍ沈香ㆍ白芷ㆍ馬兜鈴ㆍ木鼈子ㆍ甘松ㆍ升麻ㆍ血竭各五錢, 丁香皮七錢, 麝香九分. 右爲末, 分作三分, 每用一分, 以熟艾絮綿裝白綾兜肚內. 初服者每三日一解, 至第五日又服, 一月後常服之. 《入門》

Translation

Governs especially cold accumulation, seminal emission and white turbidity, and in women red and white discharge, irregular menses and long failure to conceive. White sandalwood and antelope horn 1 nyang each; spikenard grass, aloeswood, angelica dahurica, birthwort, momordica seed, nardostachys, cimicifuga and dragon's blood 5 don each; clove bark 7 don; musk 9 pun. Powder them and divide into three parts; for each use, quilt one part with prepared mugwort floss and cotton into a belly-band of white silk. One wearing it for the first time unties it every third day, resumes on the fifth, and after a month wears it constantly. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Je)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Not a medicine but a garment — aromatics quilted with mugwort floss into a silk band worn over the belly, taken off every third day at first and then worn constantly. It is the gentlest thing in the chapter and the only one meant to be lived in. **Antelope horn and musk are from CITES-listed species; momordica seed is toxic.** **馬兜鈴 is the fruit of 쥐방울덩굴, Aristolochia, and carries aristolochic acid.** The route here is not the usual one and the warning should not be the usual one either: this is worn, not swallowed — a powder quilted into a silk band and held against the belly, 常服 after the first month. The nephropathy and the urothelial cancer are documented for oral exposure; what a dry powder in a sealed band does across intact skin over weeks has not been studied, so the honest answer is that the risk is probably small and is not known. Anyone unwilling to carry an unquantified Group 1 carcinogen against the skin for a month should leave it out, and nothing in the formula's purpose depends on it. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.