Formulas · Tonify Blood 補血 · Dansim (丹心)

Tangkuei Moisten Dryness Decoction

Danggui-yunjo-tang

한글 당귀윤조탕 · Pinyin Dang Gui Run Zao Tang

當歸潤燥湯

The two oily seeds are added only at the halfway point so that their oil is not driven off; the Bogam notes the alternative name 潤燥湯.

Composition 構成

Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

4 g
Chief 君
Sukjihwang Shu Di Huang
熟地黃 숙지황 · Prepared Rehmannia

4 g
Chief 君
Saengjihwang Sheng Di Huang
生地黃 생지황 · Raw Rehmannia

2.8 g
Chief 君
Daehwang Da Huang
大黃 대황 · Rhubarb

4 g
Deputy 臣
Doin Tao Ren
桃仁 도인 · Peach Kernel

4 g
Deputy 臣

added at the halfway point of the decoction
Main Ma Ren
麻仁 마인 · Hemp Seed

4 g
Deputy 臣

added at the halfway point of the decoction
Honghwa Hong Hua
紅花 홍화 · Safflower

0.8 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

4 g
Envoy 使

raw
Seungma Sheng Ma
升麻 승마 · Cimicifuga

2.8 g
Envoy 使

Total 30.4 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

Treats blood dryness with the stool bound and inhibited

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Blood vacuity dryness with constipation

Biomedical correlates

Constipation with anaemia
Constipation after blood loss

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

一名潤燥湯. 治血燥大便秘澁. 當歸ㆍ大黃ㆍ熟地黃ㆍ桃仁ㆍ麻仁ㆍ生甘草各一錢, 生地黃ㆍ升麻各七分, 紅花二分. 右剉, 先取七味作一貼, 煎將至半, 乃入桃仁ㆍ麻仁, 煎至半, 空心服. 《丹心》

Translation

Also called Yunjo-tang. Treats blood dryness with the stool bound and inhibited. Tangkuei, rhubarb, cooked rehmannia, peach kernel, hemp seed and raw licorice, 1 don each; raw rehmannia and cimicifuga, 7 fun each; safflower, 2 fun. Cut up; first make a packet of the seven drugs and decoct down to half, then put in the peach kernel and hemp seed and decoct again to half; take on an empty stomach. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Blood dryness is the chapter's reading of the constipation that follows blood loss or childbirth, and the treatment is to moisten rather than to purge — though a don of rhubarb is kept in. What deserves notice is the decoction instruction: the peach kernel and hemp seed go in only at the halfway point, because their action is in the oil and prolonged boiling drives it off. That is a real pharmaceutical observation, and it recurs through the moistening formulas. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.