Formulas · Clear Heat 淸熱 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)

Guide Out Stagnation Decoction

Doche-tang

한글 도체탕 · Pinyin Dao Zhi Tang

導滯湯

Composition 構成

Baekjakyak Bai Shao
白芍藥 백작약 · White Peony

8 g
Chief 君
Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

4 g
Deputy 臣
Hwanggeum Huang Qin
黃芩 황금 · Scutellaria

4 g
Deputy 臣
Hwangryeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

4 g
Deputy 臣
Daehwang Da Huang
大黃 대황 · Rhubarb

2.8 g
Assistant 佐
Yukgye Rou Gui
肉桂 육계 · Cinnamon Bark

1.2 g
Assistant 佐

cassia heartwood
Mokhyang Mu Xiang
木香 목향 · Costus Root

1.2 g
Assistant 佐
Binrang Bing Lang
檳榔 빈랑 · Areca Seed

1.2 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

1.2 g
Envoy 使

Total 27.6 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

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Actions 效能

Treats a dysentery of pus and blood with inner urgency and dragging-down behind
Treats abdominal pain with thirst
without number day and night

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Damp heat accumulation with tenesmus and thirst
Severe heat dysentery

Biomedical correlates

Bacillary dysentery
Acute severe colitis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治下痢膿血, 裏急後重, 腹痛作渴, 日夜無度. 白芍藥二錢, 當歸ㆍ黃芩ㆍ黃連各一錢, 大黃七分, 桂心ㆍ木香ㆍ檳榔ㆍ甘草各三分. 右剉, 作一貼, 空心, 水煎服. 《入門》

Translation

Treats a dysentery of pus and blood with inner urgency and dragging-down behind, abdominal pain with thirst, without number day and night. White peony, 2 don; tangkuei, scutellaria and coptis, 1 don each; rhubarb, 7 fun; cassia heartwood, costus root, areca and licorice, 3 fun each. Cut up, make one packet, and decoct in water on an empty stomach. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Jakyak-tang under another name and with the peony doubled, which is the Immun's answer to the extra sign in the indication: thirst. A dysentery with thirst is one that has begun to cost the patient fluid, so the formula holds its rhubarb to seven fun and leans on the peony. Of the section's three tenesmus formulas this is the one for the sickest patient. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.