Divine Turtle Enrich the Yin Pill

Singwijaeum-hwan

한글 신귀자음환 · Pinyin Shen Gui Zi Yin Wan

神龜滋陰丸

Powdered and bound with a wine paste into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; 70 pills with salted broth.

Composition 構成

Gupan Gui Ban
龜板 구판 · Tortoise Plastron

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

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

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

40 g
Assistant 佐
Omija Wu Wei Zi
五味子 오미자 · Schisandra

40 g
Assistant 佐
Soeyang Suo Yang
鎖陽 쇄양 · Cynomorium

40 g
Assistant 佐
Geongang Gan Jiang
乾薑 건강 · Dried Ginger

20 g
Envoy 使

Total 460 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

Answers the rich liver whose damp heat has damaged the Kidney
Enriches the Yin beneath the draining

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Damp heat damaging the Kidney in one who eats richly (膏粱之人濕熱傷腎)
Legs and knees wilting weak and strengthless
Damp heat on a depleted Yin

Biomedical correlates

Leg weakness in metabolic-type patients
Damp-heat weakness with depletion
Long-course therapy

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治膏粱之人, 濕熱傷腎, 脚膝痿弱無力. 龜板(酥灸) 四兩, 黃柏ㆍ知母(幷鹽水炒) 各二兩, 枸杞子ㆍ五味子ㆍ鎖陽各一兩, 乾薑五錢. 右爲末, 酒糊和丸梧子大, 鹽湯下七十丸. 《綱目》

Translation

Treats damp heat damaging the Kidney in one whose fare is rich and fatty, with legs and knees wilting, weak, and strengthless. Butter-roasted turtle plastron 4 nyang; phellodendron and anemarrhena, both salt-water-fried, 2 nyang each; lycium fruit, schisandra, and cynomorium, 1 nyang each; dried ginger 5 don. Powder the above and bind with a wine paste into pills the size of parasol-tree seeds; take 70 pills with salted broth. — Gangmok 綱目 (Donguibogam · Jok)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Four ounces of turtle plastron leading, and the indication names the patient precisely: 膏粱之人 — one whose daily fare is rich and fatty — in whom damp heat has damaged the Kidney. That is the classical description of a metabolic patient, and the formula treats it by enriching rather than by draining alone. Note the five don of dried ginger at the bottom, present to keep a cold formula from foundering in the stomach. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.