Formulas · Stabilize & Astringe 固澀 · Seui Deukhyobang (世醫得效方)

Chicken Intestine Powder

Gyejang-san

한글 계장산 · Pinyin Ji Chang San

鷄腸散

Composition 構成

Gyejang Ji Chang
鷄腸 계장 · Chicken's Intestine

20 g
Chief 君

burnt (燒)
Moryeo Mu Li
牡蠣 모려 · Oyster Shell

20 g
Chief 君

牡蠣粉, powdered
Sangpyocho Sang Piao Xiao
桑螵蛸 상표초 · Mantis Egg Case

20 g
Chief 君

steamed (蒸)
Baekbokryeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

20 g
Deputy 臣
Yonggol Long Gu
龍骨 용골 · Dragon Bone

10 g
Deputy 臣
Yukgye Rou Gui
肉桂 육계 · Cinnamon Bark

10 g
Assistant 佐

辣桂
Daejo Da Zao
大棗 대조 · Jujube

8 g
Envoy 使

2 pieces
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

6 g
Envoy 使

3 slices

Total 114 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 child's enuresis that cannot be held

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

A child's bladder cold
or the yang qi insufficient from birth — bedwetting

Biomedical correlates

Childhood nocturnal enuresis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治小兒遺尿不禁. 多因脬寒, 或稟受陽氣不足故也. 鷄腸(燒)ㆍ牡蠣粉ㆍ白茯苓ㆍ桑螵蛸(蒸) 各五錢, 辣桂ㆍ龍骨各二錢半. 右剉, 每二錢, 薑三片, 棗二枚, 水煎空心服. 或爲末一錢, 米飮調服. 《得效》

Translation

Treats a child's enuresis that cannot be held. It is mostly from a cold bladder, or because the yang qi received at birth is insufficient. Chicken intestine (burnt), oyster shell powder, white poria and mantis egg-case (steamed) 5 don each; cinnamon and dragon bone 2 don 5 pun each. Cut up; for each 2 don add 3 slices of ginger and 2 jujubes, decoct in water and take on an empty stomach; or take 1 don of the powder stirred into rice water. — Seui Deukhyobang 得效 (Donguibogam · Sobyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Bedwetting in children, explained as a constitutional shortage of yang rather than a fault — 稟受陽氣不足, the yang received at birth being insufficient. Mantis egg-case and dragon bone are the pair the tradition uses for it, and both are still prescribed. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.