Formulas · Tonify Yang 補陽 · Seui Deukhyobang (世醫得效方)

Costus Powder (Kidney Diarrhoea)

Mokhyang-san

한글 목향산 (신설) · Pinyin Mu Xiang San

木香散

The same composition as the Jikji's 六神湯, which the Bogam notes under that entry; the Bogam prints both names in this chapter, so both are registered.

Composition 構成

Yukdugu Rou Dou Kou
肉豆蔻 육두구 · Nutmeg

6 g
Chief 君
Bogolji Bu Gu Zhi
補骨脂 보골지 · Psoralea

6 g
Chief 君
Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

6 g
Deputy 臣
Baekbokryeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

6 g
Deputy 臣
Mokhyang Mu Xiang
木香 목향 · Costus Root

2.8 g
Assistant 佐
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

2.8 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 29.6 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 spleen and kidney diarrhoea

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Spleen and kidney yang vacuity with a loose stool

Biomedical correlates

Chronic diarrhoea

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治脾腎泄. 肉豆蔲ㆍ破故紙ㆍ白朮ㆍ白茯苓各一錢半, 木香ㆍ甘草各七分. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑三ㆍ棗二, 水煎服. 《得效》

Translation

Treats spleen and kidney diarrhoea. Nutmeg, psoralea, white atractylodes and white poria, 1.5 don each; costus root and licorice, 7 fun each. Cut up, make one packet, add three of ginger and two jujubes, and decoct in water. — Seui Deukhyobang 得效 (Donguibogam · Daebyeon)

Clinical commentary 臨床

The Deukhyobang's name for what the Jikji calls Six Spirits Decoction, and the Bogam prints the two side by side a page apart. Keeping both is the honest course for a reference text: a reader who meets the name 木香散 in one tradition and 六神湯 in another needs to be able to find out that they are the same six drugs. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.