Sanguisorba Powder (Red Dysentery)

Jiyu-san

한글 지유산 (적리) · Pinyin Di Yu San

地楡散

The Bogam gives two different 地楡散 in this chapter — this one from the Dansim under Red Dysentery and the Hwarin's under Pus and Blood Dysentery — besides the Immun's for flooding, registered elsewhere.

Composition 構成

Jiyu Di Yu
地楡 지유 · Sanguisorba Root

—
Chief 君

equal parts
Hwangryeon Huang Lian
黃連 황련 · Coptis

—
Chief 君

equal parts
Jeokjakyak Chi Shao
赤芍藥 적작약 · Red Peony

—
Deputy 臣

equal parts
Cheongpi Qing Pi
靑皮 청피 · Green Tangerine Peel

—
Assistant 佐

equal parts

Total 0 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 4 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

Treats blood dysentery and red dysentery

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Damp heat in the intestinal blood
Bloody stool with heat

Biomedical correlates

Bacillary dysentery
Haemorrhagic colitis

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治血痢ㆍ赤痢. 地楡ㆍ赤芍藥ㆍ黃連ㆍ靑皮各等分. 右爲末, 每三錢, 空心, 以淡米飮調下. 《丹心》

Translation

Treats blood dysentery and red dysentery. Sanguisorba, red peony, coptis and unripe tangerine peel, equal parts. Powder, and take 3 don each time on an empty stomach stirred into thin rice water. — Dansim 丹心 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Four drugs in equal part, and it is the chapter's pocket formula for a bloody stool: the haemostatic, the blood mover, the antibacterial and a qi mover, nothing more. Taken as a powder in thin rice water it needs no decoction, which for an acute dysentery in a household without a physician is the point. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.