Guide Out the Red Sanguisorba Decoction

Dojeok-jiyu-tang

한글 도적지유탕 · Pinyin Dao Chi Di Yu Tang

導赤地楡湯

Composition 構成

Jiyu Di Yu
地楡 지유 · Sanguisorba Root

6 g
Chief 君
Hwangryeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

4 g
Chief 君

wine stir-fried
Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

6 g
Deputy 臣

body of the root
Jeokjakyak Chi Shao
赤芍藥 적작약 · Red Peony

4 g
Deputy 臣

stir-fried
Hwanggeum Huang Qin
黃芩 황금 · Scutellaria

4 g
Assistant 佐

wine stir-fried
Goehwa Huai Hua
槐花 괴화 · Pagoda Tree Flower

4 g
Assistant 佐

stir-fried
Agyo E Jiao
阿膠 아교 · Donkey-hide Gelatin

3.2 g
Assistant 佐

beaded
Hyeonggae Jing Jie
荊芥 형개 · Schizonepeta

3.2 g
Assistant 佐

spikes
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

2 g
Envoy 使

roasted

Total 36.4 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 red dysentery and blood dysentery

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Damp heat in the blood of the intestines
Bloody dysentery with tenesmus

Biomedical correlates

Bacillary dysentery
Ulcerative colitis
Amoebic colitis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治赤痢及血痢. 地楡ㆍ當歸身(酒洗) 各一錢半, 赤芍藥(炒)ㆍ黃連(酒炒)ㆍ黃芩(酒炒)ㆍ槐花(炒) 各一錢, 阿膠珠ㆍ荊芥穗各八分, 甘草(灸) 五分. 右剉, 作一貼, 空心, 水煎服. 《集略》

Translation

Treats red dysentery and blood dysentery. Sanguisorba and wine-washed tangkuei body, 1.5 don each; stir-fried red peony, wine-stir-fried coptis, wine-stir-fried scutellaria and stir-fried sophora flower, 1 don each; beaded ass-hide glue and schizonepeta spikes, 8 fun each; roasted licorice, 5 fun. Cut up, make one packet, and decoct in water on an empty stomach. — Jipryak 集略 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Red dysentery means blood in the stool, and this is the chapter's most straightforward answer to it: sanguisorba and sophora flower to stop the bleeding, coptis and scutellaria for the heat, tangkuei and peony to move and nourish the blood, ass-hide glue to hold it. Sanguisorba is tannin-rich and genuinely haemostatic on contact, and the berberine drugs have real activity against <em>Shigella</em>; for an acute bacillary dysentery this is one of the more defensible formulas in the book. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.