Formulas · Release the Exterior 解表 · Haejang (海藏)

Rat Dung Decoction

Gaseobun-tang

한글 가서분탕 · Pinyin Jia Shu Fen Tang

猳鼠糞湯

Both drugs are counted rather than weighed, so grams are given as 0. The closing sentence identifying the animal and the shape of its droppings is a gloss in the source and is kept in the translation.

Composition 構成

Gu Jiu
韭 구 · Chinese Chive

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Chief 君

a handful of the white roots
Moseobun Mu Shu Shi
牡鼠屎 모서분 · Male Rat Droppings

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Deputy 臣

fourteen pieces, pointed at both ends

Total 0 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 with a light sweat in the yin exchange pattern

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Yin exchange pattern in a man after cold damage

Biomedical correlates

Post-infectious genital inflammation

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治男子陰易病. 韭白根一把, 猳鼠糞十四箇. 右以水二升, 煮取半升, 去滓溫服, 取微汗. 未汗再服. 猳鼠, 雄鼠也. 糞兩頭尖者是也. 《海藏》

Translation

Treats the yin exchange disease in men. Chinese chive white roots, one handful; male rat droppings, fourteen pieces. Decoct in 2 seung of water, take half a seung, strain and take warm, to obtain a slight sweat. If no sweat comes, take again. <span class='sochu'>Gaseo</span> 猳鼠 means the male rat; the droppings are those pointed at both ends. — Haejang 海藏 (Donguibogam · Han, lower)

Clinical commentary 臨床

**This is not a formula to prepare.** Rat droppings carry leptospirosis, hantavirus and salmonella. What is worth reading is the gloss: the droppings must be pointed at both ends, because that identifies them as the male's. The sex of the animal matters to the formula's logic — a yin exchange disease in a man is treated with a male animal's product — and the compilers took the trouble to tell a practitioner how to tell. Chinese chive root is a genuine warming drug for the lower burner and the sweat-inducing part of the recipe. Nothing here should be made. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.