Formulas · Release the Exterior 解表 · Immun (入門)

Tao's Remaking Powder

Dossi-jaejo-san

한글 도씨재조산 · Pinyin Tao Shi Zai Zao San

陶氏再造散

Composition 構成

Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

4 g
Chief 君
Hwanggi Huang Qi
黃芪 황기 · Astragalus

4 g
Chief 君
Buja Fu Zi
附子 부자 · Prepared Aconite

4 g
Chief 君

blast-fried · toxic
Gyeji Gui Zhi
桂枝 계지 · Cinnamon Twig

4 g
Deputy 臣
Sesin Xi Xin
細辛 세신 · Asarum

4 g
Deputy 臣
Ganghwal Qiang Huo
羌活 강활 · Notopterygium

4 g
Deputy 臣
Bangpung Fang Feng
防風 방풍 · Siler

4 g
Deputy 臣
Cheongung Chuan Xiong
川芎 천궁 · Cnidium

4 g
Assistant 佐
Baekjagyak Bai Shao
白芍藥 백작약 · White Peony

4 g
Assistant 佐

parched, added to the half-reduced decoction
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

4 g
Envoy 使

roasted
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

—
Envoy 使

three slices, ash-roasted
Daejo Da Zao
大棗 대조 · Jujube

—
Envoy 使

two dates

Total 40 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 2 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

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

Releases the exterior while supporting the yang
Brings out a sweat where the yang is too weak to produce one

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Yang depletion with no sweat obtainable
named yang collapse
Exterior pattern in a patient without the strength to sweat

Biomedical correlates

Febrile illness in a debilitated or elderly patient
Failure to mount a febrile response

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治陽虛不得汗, 名曰亡陽證. 人參ㆍ黃芪ㆍ桂枝ㆍ附子(炮)ㆍ細辛ㆍ羌活ㆍ防風ㆍ川芎ㆍ甘草(灸) 各一錢. 右剉, 作一貼, 入煨薑三片, 棗二枚, 煎至半, 入炒芍藥一錢, 再煎二三沸, 溫服. 《入門》

Translation

Treats yang depletion in which no sweat can be obtained, called the yang collapse pattern. Ginseng, astragalus, cinnamon twig, blast-fried aconite, asarum, notopterygium, saposhnikovia, chuanxiong and roasted licorice, 1 don each. Cut up, make one packet, add three slices of ash-roasted ginger and two dates, decoct down to half, then add 1 don of parched peony, bring to a boil two or three times more and take warm. — Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Han, lower)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Tao Hua's best-known formula and the clearest statement of a principle the Bogam returns to often: a patient with no yang cannot be sweated, so supply the yang and the sweat follows. Ginseng, astragalus and aconite are the engine; the surface-opening drugs — cinnamon twig, asarum, notopterygium, saposhnikovia — are there to be driven by it. The peony is added late, off a half-reduced decoction, and parched: a sour, inward-turning drug put in at the end to stop the sweat from running away once it starts. That sequencing is the craft of the formula. Still used, with the aconite properly processed, for the febrile illness that an elderly patient cannot mount a response to. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.