Formulas · Tonify Qi & Blood 氣血雙補 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Ox Tripe and Placenta

Uchayuk

한글 우차육 · Pinyin Niu Che Rou

牛車肉

No weights are given, the two being eaten as a dish; 40 g each is entered as a nominal figure. The name is formed from the two ingredients — 牛(肚) and (紫河)車 — with 肉, flesh.

Composition 構成

Jahageo Zi He Che
紫河車 자하거 · Placenta (historical)

40 g
Chief 君

washed clean and boiled until soft
Udu Niu Du
牛肚 우두 · Ox Tripe

40 g
Chief 君

boiled and cut small

Total 80 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

Supplements qi and blood with food
Restores a spirit lost through depletion

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Loss of mind with withdrawal-mania
Mania from overtaxing the spirit
Depletion after a long illness of the mind

Biomedical correlates

Psychosis with malnutrition
Convalescent debility

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治失心癲狂. 紫河車洗淨煮爛, 同熟牛肚切碎, 和一處, 隨便食之, 最妙. 《入門》

Translation

Treats loss of mind with withdrawal-mania. Wash placenta clean and boil it until soft; cut up boiled ox tripe small, mix the two together, and let the patient eat it as he pleases — most excellent. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Sin)

Clinical commentary 臨床

**This is not to be prepared.** Human placenta is not a food and cannot be used safely; it is tissue of known donor origin at best and an infection risk at worst. Set that aside and the thinking is sound and unusual: the only formula in the chapter that is a dish rather than a medicine, given 隨便食之, as the patient pleases, for a mania the Immun reads as depletion. Feeding a patient who has stopped eating is the part worth keeping. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.