Formulas · Stabilize & Astringe 固澀 · Junggyeong (仲景)

Halloysite and Limonite Decoction

Jeokseokji-uyeoryang-tang

한글 적석지우여량탕 · Pinyin Chi Shi Zhi Yu Yu Liang Tang

赤石脂禹餘粮湯

Cited by the 大便門 of this site, where the name was previously left unlinked. 禹餘粮 is a limonitic clay ironstone.

Composition 構成

Jeokseokji Chi Shi Zhi
赤石脂 적석지 · Red Halloysite

10 g
Chief 君
Uyeoryang Yu Yu Liang
禹餘粮 우여량 · Limonite

10 g
Chief 君

Total 20 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 the shaoyin pattern with diarrhoea that will not stop
Treats the lower burner with two astringent minerals

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Lower burner failing to hold with unremitting diarrhoea
Cold diarrhoea with collapse of the gate

Biomedical correlates

Intractable diarrhoea
Chronic secretory diarrhoea

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治少陰證下利不止, 當治下焦, 宜用此. 赤石脂ㆍ禹餘粮各二錢半. 右剉碎, 水煎服. 《仲景》

Translation

Treats the shaoyin pattern with diarrhoea that will not stop; the lower burner should be treated, and this is appropriate. Halloysite and limonite, 2 don 5 fun each. Cut up and crush, and decoct in water. — Junggyeong 仲景 (Donguibogam · Han)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Two minerals and nothing else, for diarrhoea that has not answered to anything else. The reasoning is stated outright and is the entry's value: the lower burner should be treated — meaning the problem is no longer the cause but the failure to hold, and what is needed is not a warming or a draining drug but something that binds. Halloysite and limonite are both hydrated clays and both genuinely adsorbent and astringent, which puts this formula close to the kaolin preparations used for the same purpose into the twentieth century. One of the few mineral formulas in the book whose action is not in doubt. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.