Regulate and Guide Drink

Jodo-eum

한글 조도음 · Pinyin Tiao Dao Yin

調導飮

Composition 構成

Danggui Dang Gui
當歸 당귀 · Korean Angelica

5 g
Chief 君
Cheongung Chuan Xiong
川芎 천궁 · Cnidium

5 g
Chief 君
Bangpung Fang Feng
防風 방풍 · Siler

5 g
Deputy 臣
Jigak Zhi Qiao
枳殼 지각 · Bitter Orange

5 g
Deputy 臣
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

1.2 g
Envoy 使
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

—
Envoy 使

three slices
Daejo Da Zao
大棗 대조 · Jujube

—
Envoy 使

two fruits

Total 21.2 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

Treats a woman whose stool will not pass before or after childbirth

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Qi stagnation with constipation in pregnancy and the puerperium

Biomedical correlates

Constipation in pregnancy
Postpartum constipation

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治婦人産前後大便不通. 當歸ㆍ川芎ㆍ防風ㆍ枳殼各一錢二分半, 甘草三分. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑三片, 棗二枚, 空心, 水煎服. 《直指》

Translation

Treats a woman whose stool will not pass before or after childbirth. Tangkuei, chuanxiong, saposhnikovia and bitter orange, 1 don 2 fun 5 ri each; licorice, 3 fun. Cut up, make one packet, add three slices of ginger and two jujubes, and decoct in water on an empty stomach. — Jikji 直指 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Five drugs, no purgative, no cold drug, and the indication explicitly covers before as well as after childbirth. That restraint is the point: the chapter's other formulas for women's constipation contain rhubarb and mirabilite, which have no place in pregnancy, and this is the one entry that recognizes it. Tangkuei and chuanxiong nourish and move the blood, saposhnikovia and bitter orange move the qi, and the thing is safe. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.