Guide the Qi Decoction

Dogi-tang

한글 도기탕 · Pinyin Dao Qi Tang

導氣湯

Composition 構成

Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

10 g
Chief 君
Daehwang Da Huang
大黃 대황 · Rhubarb

4 g
Deputy 臣
Hwanggeum Huang Qin
黃芩 황금 · Scutellaria

4 g
Deputy 臣
Baekjakyak Bai Shao
白芍藥 백작약 · White Peony

4 g
Deputy 臣
Hwangryeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

2 g
Assistant 佐
Mokhyang Mu Xiang
木香 목향 · Costus Root

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

2 g
Assistant 佐

Total 28 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 a dysentery of pus and blood with inner urgency and dragging-down behind

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Damp heat with qi stagnation and tenesmus
Heat dysentery with accumulation

Biomedical correlates

Bacillary dysentery
Acute colitis with tenesmus

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治下痢膿血, 裏急後重. 當歸二錢半, 大黃ㆍ黃芩ㆍ白芍藥各一錢, 黃連ㆍ木香ㆍ檳榔各五分. 右剉, 作一貼, 水煎服. 《東垣》

Translation

Treats a dysentery of pus and blood with inner urgency and dragging-down behind. Tangkuei, 2.5 don; rhubarb, scutellaria and white peony, 1 don each; coptis, costus root and areca, 5 fun each. Cut up, make one packet and decoct in water. — Dongwon 東垣 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Jakyak-tang's drugs rearranged with tangkuei at the head, so the formula leans on moving the blood rather than clearing the heat. The chapter's standing explanation of tenesmus is that the qi is stagnant behind and the blood is stuck, so costus root and areca move the one and tangkuei the other while rhubarb clears what is lodged. Of the three formulas for this symptom — this, Jakyak-tang and Doche-tang — it is the gentlest on the heat and the strongest on the blood. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.